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

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 00:43:59 10/28/02

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Pretty clever thinking. :-) This is called asymetric eval.

Georg


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



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