Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

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

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 06:58:03 10/28/02

Go up one level in this thread


On October 28, 2002 at 00:13:26, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>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). :)


The zero score came from an example by Uri in another thread, so your take on
what is or ought to be going is the one germane to the current thread.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.