Author: Don Dailey
Date: 05:51:40 08/19/98
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On August 18, 1998 at 20:18:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I have that book! I would certainly not plug in the values they propose (1/3 of a pawn for everthing) but you can get a whole lot of good ideas from this book. - Don
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