Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 02:23:33 04/08/04
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On April 08, 2004 at 01:02:42, Mridul Muralidharan wrote: >Hi, > > Importance of endgame knowledge has been time and again discussed here. >But it is quiet frustrating for a chess patzer like me to implement this in the >engine - much more if I attempt to do this effectively. I agree entirely. Adding endgame knowledge is very difficult, especially if you want to keep the code general rather than writing huge amounts of code for dozens of different special cases. And if you give up and start writing code for all sorts of special cases, you face the ugly problem of evaluation discontinuities when pieces are exchanged. Not only the eval, but also the search is difficult in the endgame. All the well-known selective search techniques seem to fail miserably in the endgame. Chess Genius does something which seems to work rather well, but I haven't been able to figure out what it is. >[White "Borer ver 2.01 by Mridul Muraliaharan"] Is Borer a new name for MessChess, or an entirely new engine? Tord
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