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Subject: Re: Longest KBNK tablebase mate?

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 02:37:03 09/08/04

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On September 08, 2004 at 05:30:07, Rafael Andrist wrote:

>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)

Yes something like that. Must make sure that "going backwards" on a past goal is
penalized by some amount that the subsequent goals cannot achieve.



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