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Subject: Re: Fritz 8 engine parameter question

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 14:50:03 02/05/04

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On February 05, 2004 at 17:19:55, Mike Hood wrote:

>On February 05, 2004 at 17:14:23, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>On February 05, 2004 at 16:57:30, Matthew Broderbund wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>What do these parameters of the Fritz8 engine mean?
>>>
>>>Contempt value
>>>Selectivity
>>>Futility prunning
>>>Pawn levers
>>>Scale evaluation
>>>
>>>What do these parameters of the Shredder7 engine mean?
>>>Forward prunning
>>>Threads
>>
>>From the chessbase help:
>
>>    Pawn levers: The program prefers positions with pawn levers.
>
>This definition of "pawn levers" is less than useless. In technical jargon, this
>is what's known as a "circular definition".

 Well actually this is not a definition of a pawn lever, but a description of
what the Fritz's parameter "Pawn lever" does, and the description says in more
detail that: there is an analogy of the value of the parameter and the
willingness of the program to prefer positions with pawn levers.




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