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Subject: Re: Where lies the difference in strength?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:12:20 04/06/02

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On April 06, 2002 at 09:42:12, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>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

I agree and christophe also said that he believes that a piece square table
program with good search rules can get 2400 in the ssdf list that is better than
a master.

Uri



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