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Subject: Re: Evaluation function question

Author: Robert Henry Durrett

Date: 05:54:47 06/19/02

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On June 18, 2002 at 21:00:28, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On June 18, 2002 at 18:42:27, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Get to hackin' and tell us how it comes out.  Better yet, show us what you have
>>done when it is accomplished.  Then, in a monument of laziness, we won't have to
>>figure it out ourselves.
>>;-)
>
>This seems to be my biggest flaw. I spend a ton of time thinking about
>evaluation and forward pruning ideas, and I still don't have a program that even
>plays yet. One of these days I suppose I'll sit down and bang out the rest of
>the "basics" so I can start testing my ideas.
>
>I also need to write a GUI to play with so I can better "see" how my ideas are
>working.
>
>And let it just be known that if I am able to get any new ideas working, then
>anyone can, because I'm up there pretty high on the SSDF Lazy List :)
>
>I also think that a lot of my ideas are good, but that in practice they will
>slow the search down too much to produce improvements. Although I think I might
>be able to get some kind of complicated bitboard type of approach to make it
>work more efficiently. This is all still in my head and on paper though, no
>code, so we'll see.
>
>Russell

It's important that you stay awake.  If you go to sleep, you may forget some of
that stuff!  :)

Bob D.

P.S. Record your ideas



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