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Subject: Re: Where lies the difference in strength?

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 06:42:12 04/06/02

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On April 06, 2002 at 07:21:02, Marc van Hal wrote:


>There is much gain in evaluation.
>But what is evaluation precisly?
>your program builds it up from the settings you gave for Kingsafety
>pawnstructure, pieces,pins,mobilety,selective search,inserted knowledge and
>piece table bases and so on.
>Though I am not a programer this is what I know from personelty creatings.
>I only don't know how a program is programed to find out where it al stands for
>
>Most epd's are still solved with piece table bases and not on search technics
>The most strenght is to gain in looking good at  your program's good and bad
>points .
>Then you increase the valeu of the weak points
>
>If you use null move methode selective search is even of more importance then
>with normal search.
>if it is set to low for instance it will play null moves at a moment it rather
>should not.
>Also the selectivety of nulmoves is important.
>
>To find the best posible settings for a program is always a mather of much work.
>The better it gets the more dificult it becomes.
>
>Still i think comercial program still are far from these perfect settings
>and  the  most gain is to be hold out of inserting more positional knowledge.
>And where I am pointing especialy at is knowledge about pawn structures.
>secondly is to find away where it rather builds up the attack then execute it at
>once
>Mostlikely with changing the valeu of capture.
>
>
>Though again I am not a programmer but it might be help full.
>
>Regards Marc

Peter Frey, in his book "Chess Skill in Man and Machine," says that
some experts think that a chess program with sophisticated search
algorithms and little chess knowledge might approach master level.

w.b.r.
Otello







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