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Subject: Re: Move table

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 23:32:49 01/12/99

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On January 13, 1999 at 01:18:17, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>>>
>>>The current positional value is in a global variable.  I mess with it in
>>>"makemove" and I put it back in "unmakemove".
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>Hmm, so if you incrementally update the positional value, as well as the
>>material value, what's left for the eval to do?
>
>Nothing, if you don't have any king safety, pawn structure eval, or evaluation
>terms that have anything to do with the pieces surrounding a piece, rather than
>just the piece itself.
>
>bruce

I thought you meant that the entire positional value was incrementally updated.
Someone must have tried that at some point.

Will



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