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Subject: Re: Shredder 6 "knowledge" question

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 05:55:27 03/19/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 08:51:46, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>If you crank up the "knowledge" parameter in Shredder 6 i have noticed that it
>overevaluates the given position by a mile and therefore plays relativly weak.
>Can anyone explain how this works, howcome the more knowledge the weaker play
>from Shredder 6? (100 is the default setting, i am talking anything above that)
>does this mean that if you turn this setting up to max (150 IIRC) that Shredder
>6 needs longer time to make good use of more knowledge?
>The last post about the "perfect" program made me think of this, maybe there is
>a comparison.

I suspect the setting does not affect the amount of heuristics in the evaluation
that Shredder uses, but merely scales all positional scores by the given amount.

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GCP



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