Author: James T. Walker
Date: 05:59:53 01/09/99
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On January 09, 1999 at 05:55:25, Graham Laight wrote: >As I was sitting eating my breakfast just now, it occured to me that there are >basically 3 items that, between them, will influence how close an evaluation of >a chess position is to how good that position really is: > >1. The number of pieces of knowledge the evaluation function can call upon > >2. The quality of those pieces of knowledge > >3. The accuracy of selecting the right pieces of knowledge (and their >appropriate weightings) for the position at hand > > >Does anybody have any thoughts about this? Yes, but I'm not an expert so take it with a grain of salt. :-) The knowledge you mention seems correct but would be almost useless without a deep search so it seems to me the search depth and knowledge are intertwined and as everything else in life, must be a comprimise. Unless you have deep blue hardware and can afford both. Jim Walker
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