Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:18:30 08/18/98
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On August 18, 1998 at 17:27:21, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On August 18, 1998 at 10:47:07, James Robertson wrote: > >>Nimzowitsch's "My System" is a cool book that helped me admire and enjoy the >>neat aspects of Nimzowitsch's play. However, I think his style would be >>completely incompatible with a chess program. If a program played the way he >>did, it would commit positional suicide, becuase his ideas are too long-range >>for most (all?) progragrams to handle. >> >>James > >Some of "My System" is definitely useful for programming an evaluation function. > For example, there isn't there quite a bit in there about Rooks on the 7th? >Most programs have this eval. term, its quite an important one. > >I think "My System" also talks about blockading passed pawns, this is something >that my program doesn't have an eval. term for but I plan to add it. >I've seen quite a few games where it would have save a half point at least. > >cheers, >Peter A book I was using back in the early 70's was "Point Count Chess" and had some cute ideas that actually made a lot of sense in the context of a computer chess program... Most likely hard to find now, but it had ideas galore...
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