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Subject: Re: To build a book or not?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:32:32 07/17/02

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On July 16, 2002 at 23:39:33, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On July 16, 2002 at 20:31:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I thought Uri said "corner squares".  Which is more dangerous than "corner
>>squares on the enemy side of the board".  But even then there are probably ways
>>to exploit a program that thinks a knight on a8 is really bad...
>
>I think there must be a superior method than assigning values to squares like
>this. By this method, a strong player would pick the program apart. If a more
>general method was found, there wouldn't be the need to patch up our programs
>with exception after exception. Surely piece square tables are not the best
>we've got?
>
>Russell

I do not see how a strong player can take advantage of the fact that the program
is using also a piece square table.

I do not see how he can produce in a game a position when sacrificing a pawn for
knight in the corner is bad.

Uri



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