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Subject: Re: Evaluation in Rebel

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 11:05:50 01/07/03

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On January 07, 2003 at 13:15:54, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Ed,
>
>This eval stuff is great!  IMO this section could be the one that delivers the
>the most knowledge capital.  There are open source programs but I cannot think
>of anywhere on the web where there is a detailed *explanation* of a complex
>evaluation routine.  Crafty is probably the closest - the papers on temperal
>difference maybe another.

That's one of the things, whenever you read a well thought article on computer
chess it's about always about search.


>>The white bishop on F1 looks through G2 to H3.
>
>So what's the trigger to 'look though' a piece?

Simple in the above case, when the bishop on F1 discovers the pawn of G2 it will
do WB[H3]++;


>Is it done for all slidingpieces?

Yes.


>That sounds expensive.

It is.

Ed


>Regards,
>
>Steve



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