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Subject: Re: check this position too! - a minor modification with major consequen

Author: José Carlos

Date: 06:48:20 02/12/04

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On February 12, 2004 at 06:42:47, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 12, 2004 at 06:16:53, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 2004 at 06:03:37, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>The main point is that programs should not evaluate unclear position as winning.
>>>
>>>Black has a big advantage without capturing the pawn so there is no reason to
>>>capture h3 and get unclear pawn endgame.
>>>
>>>evaluating Rxh3 Rh2 as a win for white without search is a msitake but
>>>evaluating it as a win for black is also a mistake that cause Crafty to miss a
>>>simple win by not capturing the pawn.
>>
>>And again I'm reminded of the posts some months ago, in which someone suggested
>>to have some kind of an uncertainty-value together with a score. In this case,
>>the machine could decide that it's better to play a move with score +1 (5%
>>uncertainty) than a move with score +2 (70% uncertainty).
>
>No
>
>score should consider the uncertianty inside of it.
>The score is in pawns but can be also translated to an expected result.
>
>Uri

  I do an uncertainity level in Anubis. I use it mostly to allow/disallow
pruning or stand-pat, but it also works fine for comparing values. It's tricky
and should be used carefully, but it can work.

  José C.



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