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Subject: Re: evaluation function

Author: Omid David

Date: 13:19:56 08/28/02

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On August 28, 2002 at 12:11:30, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On August 28, 2002 at 11:58:16, Omid David wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>>Slate, D.J. and Atkin, L.R. (1977). CHESS 4.5 – The Northwestern University
>>chess program. Chess Skill in Man and Machine, P.W. Frey (Ed.), pp. 82-118,
>>Springer, 2nd ed. 1983, ISBN 0-387-90790-4/3-540-90790-4.
>
>Anything more modern?

Nothing as detailed as that 1977 article.

Omid.



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