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

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 21:13:26 10/27/02

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On October 28, 2002 at 00:12:47, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>I think they were saying not to call it zero, but to take the normal score you
>would give for that position and lower it some degree corresponding with your
>non-understanding of the position.  So if the evaluation is already -9.00, it
>would become -10.00 (or worse) if there are parts of the evaluation you don't
>understand.  This way, the search will try to AVOID those parts of the tree more
>than normal.

Or even if they weren't saying it, that is how it should be done (if it should
be done at all). :)



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