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Subject: Re: WAC 002, again... :)))

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:47:30 12/23/02

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On December 23, 2002 at 11:42:18, John Lowe wrote:

>On December 23, 2002 at 10:41:03, Vladimir Medvedev wrote:
>
>>>Movei can solve it without bonus for passed pawns and without bonus for
>>>connected passed pawns.
>>
>>At which depth? Is it due to good pawn extensions, or due to some other [secret]
>>technique?
>>
>>>Based on your words:
>>>If your target is to be better in test suites then use 350
>>>If your target is to be better in games use 275
>>
>>Yes, this seems to me reasonable.
>>
>>>other programmers may use different evaluation for rook,bishop,knight
>>>and different piece square table and different mobility evaluation.
>>
>>In the sources I have read these values are quite typical (100-300-350-500-900,
>>plus or minus 10...50 centipawns).
>
>Hi Vladimir,
>
>I should like to learn something along the same lines. If I talk rubbish (often
>do) perhaps someone more experienced will explain.
>
>Your piece values seem very familiar but it strikes me that they are in decimal!
>
>My piece values look identical but they're in hexadecimal. The value of a pawn
>becomes 0100H and bonuses come in units of 0001H
>
>Bishops are interesting. 0380H is cumbersome.
>
>I have a little scheme:
>
>Name:         Label:           value:
>
>Pawn          01               01                      =label or 1
>Knight        02               03                      =label or 1
>Bishop        03               03 (+1 if 2 bishops)    =label or 1 (+)
>Rook          04               05                      =label or 1
>Queen         09               09                      =label or 1
>King          0F               Priceless! (4F sometimes)
>Even number pieces do not move on diagonals - ever.
>
>As you only lose one at a time, two bishops become valued at 7.
>
>Bonuses are something else ........ is it usual to talk about "centipawns"? If
>so I wonder why!
>
>I also wonder if everyone has dropped the convention of using bit 15 as the
>colour flag - it's so efficient to test!

And at what washing machine chip is this supposed to still run? 2KB ram?




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