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Subject: Re: Static Evaluation Function

Author: Pallav Nawani

Date: 21:15:33 04/06/05

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On April 06, 2005 at 10:59:26, Graham Laight wrote:

>On April 06, 2005 at 10:32:43, Meg Ryan wrote:
>
>>Has anyone got any advice of writing a good position eval?
>
>* write a function that takes two chess positions and produces a value between 0
>and 1 depending on how closely they match
>
>* match the given position with every position in the chessbase database,
>scoring it as 1 if the player won, 0.5 if the game drew, or 0 if the player
>lost. Use the position matching function as a weighting, and then sum your total
>answers
>
>-g
>
>

This is a bad idea for the following reason:
In chess, some times even a square's difference can be the difference between a
win and a draw or a loss. Your method will fail in such situations. And these
situations are far more plentiful than one would expect.

Pallav



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