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Subject: Re: Crafty vs Rxc4 - 6 hours Tinker PCSQ-Only Eval Yes, Yet Gerbil No ?

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 11:43:33 08/02/02

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On August 02, 2002 at 12:24:33, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 02, 2002 at 10:07:47, Brian Richardson wrote:
>
>>This is a pretty interesting position.  As it happens, Tinker finds Rxc4 in
>>about 1 second at ply 7, BUT only with a special version of the evaluation
>>function that I have been testing (with little success so far) that only uses
>>material and piece square values.  It sticks with this move with a slowly rising
>>score until at least ply 12 (+0.44).  Funny thing is that Gerbil (also material
>>and piece square only eval version) does not like Rxc4, so there must be
>>something else going on here with extensions or something else search-related.
>
>
>What is your piece square table for pawn at b3 or b2?
>
>I suspect that if you use big values there you can get Rxc4 by piece square
>table evaluation but I think that using big values there is a mistake.
>
>of course b3 and b2 should be evaluated as more than b7 but the difference
>should not be very big.
>
>Uri

I use the values from the ICCA article some years ago that were developed from
one of the TD learning experiments.
pawn b3 = 120, b2 = 192




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