Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 01:20:57 06/18/02
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On June 18, 2002 at 03:23:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >Hmm, I consider centralizing the pieces to be a 'natural' rule. I think that in the early parts of the game it is, but it really seems like a very hackish way to do this. For example, in the endgame, if your program is torn between two moves, and one gets a bonus because it happens to be moving to e4, that's "unnatural" evaluation to me. Even in some openings, getting your pieces centralized goes against the point of the opening, especially in flank openings. Imagine your program playing through the opening book for the Larsen opening (1. b3) and getting a decent position coming out of the book, and then your program starts moving it's pieces to be more centrally located, totally defeating itself and defeating the purpose of the opening, which is to control the center from the flank. Fortunately, I have tons of ideas about how to get around these hacks and how to implement it in a general way :) Russell
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