Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:58:25 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 18:55:25, Roy Eassa wrote: >On October 27, 2002 at 17:14:22, Ingo Lindam wrote: > >>Hello... >> >>I just thought about some questions from Bob that lead me to a problem. >>I know the engines should have as much knowledge as the programmer can give to >>it. But ofcourse in may searchtree may appear some positions I can't apply a lot >>(or in worst case any) of that knowledge: material is equal and all the other >>knowledge doesn't fit to current position (in the tree). Will my score 0 (or >>atleast very near to 0)? >> >>If yes...I just ask me whether this could lead the computer to optimize the best >>move sequence into complete knowing nothing about the position the sequence of >>moves end in... as more as I evaluate the positions for my opponent the same >>way? >> >>Shouldn't I better substract something from my score and add something on the >>opponents score in case I know nothing about the position? >> >>Ofcourse I know it is very probably that this is already done by every engine >>programmer and I just don't read anything about it yet or that I just make a >>mistake thinking about it now. >> >>Who can tell me? >> >>Ingo > > >I cannot answer your question, but may I attempt to reword it to see if I >understand: > >A program could determine the relevance of its knowledge to each position. >I.e., it could "know" that it does not understand some positions as well as >others. It could penalize the score of a position in the search tree by an >amount proportional to the lack of understanding. Ultimately it would then >penalize and thus avoid positions it understands the least. > >Is that about it? The danger is that the program is doing a very big search at today's speeds. If you leave a small "hole" in the positions your evaluation can produce scores for, then the search will head for that hole if the basic evaluation is bad, since those scores might be nearer zero...
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