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Subject: Re: Fruit mobility question

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 02:14:26 06/20/04

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On June 20, 2004 at 00:12:22, Uri Blass wrote:

>Is it correct that fruit evaluates mobility as the same for all directions?
>
>If I understand Fruit1.5's code correctly I do not see difference between
>mobility of rook in files and in ranks.
>
>The mobility score for rook seems to be the number of square that it can goto
>minus 7.
>
>Uri

That is how Fabien explained it to me, so I think you are correct. One
specialtity is that Fruit counts all squares where the piece can go plus the
enemy pieces which are attacked. It is actually possible to give these two
concepts different weights but so far it does not seem to increase the strength.

regards Joachim



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