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Subject: Re: Longest KBNK tablebase mate?

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 02:30:07 09/08/04

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On September 08, 2004 at 04:14:08, Alessandro Scotti wrote:

>With the "staged" algorithm I try to set intermediate goals and reach them
>without worrying about the rest. For example:
>1) centralize king, make sure king is closer to center than losing king,
>minimize distance;
>2) drive losing king to the edge of the board;
>3) drive losing king towards the bishop angle.
>When a goal is achieved, it is assigned a bonus score and the next goal kicks
>in.

I think you can do this much easier by giving different amounts of bonus points,
e.g. 1000 for 1), 100 for 2) and 10 for 3)

regards
Rafael B. Andrist




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