Author: KarinsDad
Date: 08:26:13 01/30/99
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On January 30, 1999 at 02:28:05, Eugene Nalimov wrote: [snip] > >Weights are programmable; evaluations factors are not. You >*have to* live with factors that were chosen by hardware >designers. Let's assume that they did not programmed king >safety there (of course they programmed - Murray Campbell >said that in his MS lecture, but let's live with that >hypothesis for demonstration purposes). If so, you will be not >able to port any program that evaluates that factor to DB >hardware. Or you can port it, but you'll end up with a program >that lost major component of its evaluation function (imagine >CSTal without king safety), and don't receive some other >factors, that can be evaluated by DB, but are not evaluated by >your program (most programs ignores pins and overloaded pieces >in their SEE - in hardware you can have it free). Or you can >use *all* factors that can be evaluated by DB hardware - in that >case you'll end up exactly with DB, but with other set of >coefficients. DB team spent a lot of time tuning their >coefficients, so I doubt that your new set will be better. > >Eugene Got it. Thanks Eugene. KarinsDad
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