Author: Michael Henderson
Date: 13:39:44 10/09/04
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On October 09, 2004 at 15:39:15, Jan K. wrote: >Just a silly question:if you have a symmetric position does it make sense to >give some bonus to the side that moves? Or it's completely irrelevant in 99% >positions as you simply find this 'right to move first=advantage' by search, so >it doesn't matter to score it as 0? That's a good question :) There is promise in doing this because most evaluations are done at the leaves. For example, after 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 a regular eval may score this as 0. One might say white has an edge, so it's possible to give white a bonus for being on move. I believe it prevents the computer from playing boring chess and prevents it from seeing these positions as dead draws (eval = 0).
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