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Subject: Re: Adding knowledge to the evaluation, what am I doing wrong?

Author: Albert Bertilsson

Date: 14:06:20 03/13/03

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On March 13, 2003 at 15:40:31, Charles Roberson wrote:

>
>  When adding knowledge, I found it beneficial to start with the most generic
> knowledge and work my way to the more specific. By more generic I mean more
>often applicable. So, space control or mobility would be better added before
>pawn_close_to_king. If you have nothing but material and the knowledge that
>you have stated, then I can believe that it would increase the number of nodes.
>However, you did start correctly in trying to tune the values. Tuning is quite
>important.
>
> Charles

Hi Charles!

Aah, this really helped me, you see I though I started with the general stuff.
To bad I don't know what space control and mobility is (although the ideas give
a hint). I'll probably put this evaluation stuff on the shelf for now and read
some about chess.

/Regards Albert



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