Author: Will Singleton
Date: 12:25:45 03/01/99
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On March 01, 1999 at 13:28:50, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >Hi, > >I'm curious what kinds of things people have for evaluating king safety. > >Yes I've looked at Crafty but am more interested now in a variety of >people's viewpoints on KING SAFETY. > >Stuart Mine isn't anything to shout about, but it's a lot better than it used to be. I used to fall for just about any kside attack a good player could come up with; now that occurs more rarely. I talked with Dan Homan about this some time ago, and he shared some ideas about his methods. I've modified the approach since then to fit the way my program works. Basically, I just compute two things: how much is the king being threatened, and how much do I care about it. That is, if my king is well-protected, should I care if the opponent has a couple pieces nearby? Certainly not as much as when my king has a pawn missing and no defensive pieces around. So I just multiply the threat by the "do I care" factor, and that seems to work pretty well. It was difficult to balance the numbers (attacker vs defender), resulting in my program throwing pieces at the enemy sometimes. But I do it asymetrically now, and most times it works. Will
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