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Subject: Re: evaluation function

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:54:35 08/28/02

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On August 28, 2002 at 12:13:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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.
>



The inverse is also true.  Just because you _can't_ see it doesn't mean
that the quantity/quality is any better than what you _can_ see...


>>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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