Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:58:29 05/20/02
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On May 20, 2002 at 11:00:49, Eric Baum wrote: >On May 20, 2002 at 09:45:40, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>The question is what do you mean by not much else. >> >>The difference between material only and material with piece square table can be >>huge so only piece square table can be described as much else. >> > >How is the piece square table prepared? Is it >trained or hand coded? I think that in most of the cases it is hand code and I do not think that there can be a big improvement from training it. How many rating points/ply of strength >is the difference between piece-square and simple >material? I guess that the difference between piece square table and only material may be more than 300 elo. I prefer not to give an exact estimate when I am not sure about it and I do not say if it is 350 or 400 or 500 or 600. > >> >>I doubt if it is possible to get a lot from extensive training of evaluation >>function. >> > >That is my impression. To within a hundred rating >points or so, programs are still hand coded. I agree.
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