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Subject: Re: experimenting with anti-piecetrading

Author: Andrew Platt

Date: 12:58:09 09/23/04

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On September 23, 2004 at 15:55:09, Stan Arts wrote:

>On September 23, 2004 at 14:32:43, Jon Dart wrote:
>
>>
>>There is no reason to make this root-dependent. Just scale the material score
>>with a bonus - the side with a significant material advantage (say >3 pawns)
>>gets a bonus for having fewer pieces. This encourages trading down pieces when
>>you are ahead material (but be careful with very low materal .. e.g. pawnless
>>endings with an extra piece are generally hard to win, so you can trade down too
>>low).
>>
>>--Jon
>
>Thanks
>
>I'll try experiment with that. Indeed then you can have a symetrical
>evaluation again, but I can't have an anti-trade bonus when the position is
>still equal. But maybe that's best anyway. (And all this gives me a reason to
>add a new anti-human configuration-switch.)

It's not anti-human, it's standard chess strategy. Not that I ever remember that
when playing of course!

Andy.



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