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Subject: Re: Problem: knowing nothing about a position = score 0??

Author: Ingo Lindam

Date: 15:25:32 10/27/02

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On October 27, 2002 at 18:01:30, José Carlos wrote:

>  There's a difference between:
>  a) my knowledge doesn't fit the position (ie no open lines where I have a
>bonus for open lines).
>  b) the sum of weights is zero (I have one open line and my opponent has one
>open line).
>
>  In the first case, you're right that zero eval is misleading and dangerous.
>  In the second, the position is probably balanced (if this applies to many
>parameters, of course, not just one), so the zero is correct.


You are right about that difference... but I want to give you a realistic
example for the programm evaluate near 0 for the few things he can
evaluate...and another 0 for all the things it doesn't know anything about.
My problem still isn't solved. You wouldn't play towards a position you just
know it is ballanced in the aspect of open files, but in all the other aspects
you can't judge it at all, would you?




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