Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:11:20 08/19/98
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On August 19, 1998 at 08:51:40, Don Dailey wrote: >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 I agree about the "resolution" of scores... I was really thinking that this book pointed out lots of useful "things" that should/could be detected, almost as if it had been written for a computer chess programmer. I remember when Bert dug that up out of the USM library... it was a revelation to us back then... :) Bob
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