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Subject: Re: experimenting with anti-piecetrading

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:04:34 09/23/04

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On September 23, 2004 at 15:58:09, Andrew Platt wrote:

>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.

No it is not.

I try to play the best move and I do not have strategy against trading pieces.

Uri



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