Author: martin fierz
Date: 04:28:28 11/17/03
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On November 17, 2003 at 05:28:19, macaroni wrote: >What programs use this method for evuation? (perhaps varying it at the start of >each search). At the moment my program uses this, and a bit of king safty done >in-search. Is it a viable method? or before I re-write my fairly bad SetMaps() >function, should I change the whole system? >cheers >tor piece-square-tables have the advantage that you have a really fast evaluation thanks to incremental eval updating. but apart from that, they simply have to be bad in the long run, because they are too simplistic. i'm certain that a good evaluation will do better than PST. however, if you don't have a good eval, then using PST instead will look quite good in comparison :-) cheers martin
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