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Subject: Re: evaluation function

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 09:13:11 08/28/02

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On August 28, 2002 at 11:01:52, Jayakumar Ramanathan wrote:

the truth is that all you will find out is a very primitif information
about it in programs like gnuchess and crafty which are open source.

the real good evaluations are top secret, both from most amateurs as well
as from commercials. so please what you see in these programs gives
a good idea how it works. it doesn't represent quantity or quality of
the real ones.

>What is the best place to read about how chess evaluation functions are
>constructed? I am not an expert in programming but would like to know the
>details of how numerical values are assigned to various positional concepts
>(material, open files, etc.) and how they are weighted in the final value that
>the routine outputs.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>diomedesX



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