Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:38:31 08/22/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 06:53:42, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >For me the evaluation fuction is a bit like the soul of a chess prog. The search >and other functions just do the housekeeping, some slower some faster, some >buggier some less. Every chess prog contain them in one or the other way. >It's no problem to briefly look how the evaluation function is made, how the >gerneral flow is going of all this decision making. Or what elements the >evaluation functions of _different_ chess engines contain. (Passed pawns eval, >king safety etc) >But to look closer at ones souls is not appropriate. To transform these elements >to just adapt it to other data structures is not ok in my oppinion. Maybe for a >housekeeping function yes, but not in the evaluation. It's like stealing >somebodys Mojo. > >regards >Andy I disagree that the evaluation is the soul of a chess program It is only one part and the search is another part. Not all the chess programs contain the same pruning and extension ideas and the same order of moves and I see no reason to assume that it is accepted to copy the same search algorithm and not the evaluation algorithm. Uri
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