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Subject: Re: evaluation function

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 10:02:07 08/28/02

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

>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

An excellent paper is the PhD by Peter Mysliwietz (co-author of Zugzwang):

   Peter Mysliwietz. Konstruktion und Optimierung von Bewertungsfunktionen beim
Schach.

Just take a look at your scientific library.

Alessandro



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