Author: Inmann Werner
Date: 15:56:58 01/10/99
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On January 10, 1999 at 10:12:43, Frank Phillips wrote: >Having concentrated more on the search and simply getting my chess program >working, my static evaluation function has grown in an adhoc fashion. It >contains the usual terms – two bishops, no bishop and pawns on both sides, >passed pawns, connected passed pawns, outside passed pawns, doubled pawns, >isolated pawns, rook on the seventh, rook on open file, and so on – but I have >no idea what the relative difference these all make let alone the importance of >their relative values. Clearly there are too many variables for rigorous >testing. Not a new problem. Any advice? Somewhat amusingly the program has >taken to flinging its h and a- pawns forward in the style of the rubbish I >remember from the seventies. Not quite the Kh8 style “null move”, but no doubt >similar. Same problem as me. My search now is rather fast and good. Nearly "everything" in, like hashing, null moves, razoring etc. etc. And it works! But the evaluation function is too poor. If you are interested, we can exchange our evaluation ideas. Send me an email, if you are interested. Maybe together, we find some nice things? Werner
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