Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 21:02:48 01/17/02
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On January 17, 2002 at 07:30:18, Severi Salminen wrote: >>another advantage of using winning percentage and drawing percentage ia that you >>could use these to determine how deeply to search branches, e.g. if it is 99% >>draw, you would not need to search deeper, but if it is 30% win and 40% draw, >>you would want to search much deeper. Note that both of these would have about 0 >>pawn value. > >I think you are now forgetting something: how on earth can we know these >percentages for sure??? You can't. The question does not even make sense. You can have more confidence in your estimations is some positions. >That would mean solving chess, which is still quite far >away. And now, with pawn values, we are allready doing the same thing: if we >reach 3-fold rep, or 50-move rep position, we can return (well, my engine >doesn't, but most do ;). And if a position is 99% draw, I'd like to search >deeper, that's for sure... Would you rather spend your time searching this line or another line which is entirely unclear ? >Again, pawn values are doing just fine! Pawn values don't say anything about how good your estimate is. ?Converting >those to another scale doesn't change a thing, in engine's point of view. > >Severi
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