Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 23:11:06 04/17/03
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As mentioned by the other responders, a good first-cut test for a static evaluator is to compare evaluations over a test set of positions or games with the evaluations made by good players or other programs (collectively, "experts"). However, to make major improvements to the evaluator that is not enough. Due to the complex interaction of evaluation with search, your program will often never even consider a position that your expert will insist is along the main line. Likewise your expert will often ignore what your program believes to be the main line. So, a suggestion: have both your program and expert static-evaluate the deepest quiet position along both main lines. Although this is no panacea, differences there should quickly show much of what your program is missing. -- Walter
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