Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 16:22:23 11/12/02
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On November 12, 2002 at 18:20:54, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 12, 2002 at 17:56:14, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On November 12, 2002 at 17:49:48, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On November 12, 2002 at 17:39:55, Bob Durrett wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Without using a chess engine to check my intuition, my first impression is that >>>>king safety issues dominate. If true, then this is really a test of the >>>>engine's ability to recognize that fact. >>>> >>>>Bob D. >>> >>>No >>> >>>Movei has no king safety evaluation >> >>????????????????? >> >>My chin fell to the floor when I read that! You do not have ANYTHING in your >>program at all having to do with king safety??? >> >>Again relying on my "naked intuition," I would have thought that no chess engine >>could even exist without that. >> >>King safety is "lesson number one" in teaching of HUMAN chess players. >> >>Bob D. > >It knows that it should not go forward with the king except endgame thanks to >piece square table but not more than it. > >Note that I do not try to teach humans to play chess but to teach my program to >play chess better. > >I plan to teach it about king safety in the future but today I improve it by >other ways. That makes a lot of sense. Good idea. : ) Nevertheless, I still find it remarkable that your program can do well without SOMETHING at least distantly related to king safety. Maybe the answer is: "If you play good chess, you won't get checkmated." Bob D. > >I do not like to teach it simple ideas like no pawns near the king are bad(a lot >of amateurs use this rule for their program) because there are cases when it is >not bad. > >Maybe I can get some improvement by this rule but I do not like writing >evaluation code only to delete it later. > >inspite of lack of knowledge Movei has chances against everything and recently >it drew a blitz game against ruffian(the best freeware program) and it was >not a grandmaster draw. > >see http://www.geocities.com/cpf27/page9.htm for the tournament and you can >download the games(The movei that was used there is not the latest movei but it >is clearly better than the public version) > >Uri
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