Author: Pat King
Date: 18:37:54 04/14/03
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On April 10, 2003 at 07:51:05, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 10, 2003 at 07:11:15, Pat King wrote: >> >>So small? I've been using much larger, >1 pawn. Perhaps I'm missing something on >>how contempt is supposed to work. > >I use no contempt and I plan to use no contempt in the near future(not in >playing mode and not in analyze mode). > >contempt is used only to avoid draws. >If you use value of more than 1 pawn then it means that your program will prefer >to be a pawn down and not to draw by repetition. > >I also think that the importance of contempt is almost 0 for games unless you >want to do your program 100 elo weaker by using crazy values of contempt. > >Uri OK, I'll take that to mean I'm doing it right, as I'd rather gamble a pawn than accept a draw. Admittedly, not neccessarily going to give me the highest ELO, but I'm not taking on the world any time soon :) Pat
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