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Subject: Re: How do you effectively dumb down an engine? (some suggestions)

Author: George Sobala

Date: 15:22:38 04/19/04

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Try bumping up the positional scores WAY above piece scores, so that the program
values things like king safety, pawn structure, space or whatever much more than
piece count. Muck around with piece values in a major way too. You end up with a
weaker program, but one that plays interesting and sometimes startlingly
original chess.

Note that I am talking *excessive* changes here - normally when people tweak
personalities they adjust positional factors by +/- 10% or so. I am talking of
adjusting such factors by x2-x5 !




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