Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:22:14 05/16/03
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On May 16, 2003 at 11:43:12, Jon Dart wrote: >I think most are tactical, in the sense that the best move wins material or >produces some other clear advantage. But a program with material only eval >wouldn't likely do well. Some positions require some endgame knowledge to >evaluate accurately, for example. And tactical problems are often solved much >faster if the program understands something about king safety. I agree that tactical problems are solved faster if the program has better evaluation but I simply wanted to know if there are positions that I should not use if I test changes in the search and not test in the evaluation. I guess that you say that every position should be solved after a deep search by a program that is not totally stupid. Uri
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