Author: andrew tanner
Date: 17:36:46 04/19/03
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On April 19, 2003 at 13:26:10, Russell Reagan wrote: >Dan Heisman is one of my favorite writers on chess. I think he does a good job >of explaining things that lower rated players like myself need to know. have you read "The Amateur's Mind" by IM Jeremy Silverman? 443 pages $16 at amazon. He asks his students what they are thinking in the given position then compares their thoughts to the correct ideas for the position. His students are rated 900,1200,1500,1700,1850,2100. > >This month in his chesscafe.com article, he writes about evaluating positions. >In reading it, I thought some of it might be interesting to chess programmers, >because he compares various piece combinations and tells which is prefered and >gives numbers of how much better a particular board feature or group of pieces >is worth. > >Most of it is probably nothing new for chess programmers, but it might be >interesting to compare your evaluation functions to the one he describes.
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