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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