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Subject: Re: Mobility in Chess Evaluation Function at terminal-nodes

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 19:13:19 12/30/05

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On December 29, 2005 at 14:12:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 29, 2005 at 13:52:49, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>On December 29, 2005 at 05:58:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On December 29, 2005 at 05:56:33, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 29, 2005 at 05:02:36, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 29, 2005 at 04:49:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On December 28, 2005 at 16:04:28, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Perhaps you can even omit some
>>>>>>>piece types.  I don't evaluate pawn or king mobility at all (in my
>>>>>>>experience, there are better ways to evaluate king activity), and I
>>>>>>>have never seen any measurable difference in strength when I
>>>>>>>switch queen mobility on or off.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>What about knights?
>>>>>
>>>>>Good question.   I have never tried disabling knight mobility, but
>>>>>it is perfectly possible that a piece square table with high values
>>>>>for central squares would work just as well as pseudo-legal
>>>>>mobility for knights.
>>>>>
>>>>>Tord
>>>>
>>>>My mobility for the knight is legal mobility.
>>>>Knight that is pinned get no bonus.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>When I think more about it I will need to give it negative score when I change
>>>my mobility evaluation because today I give every side bonus based on the number
>>>of all moves and I plan to change it to bonus based on the number of all moves
>>>relative to material(similiar to fruit)
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>By "all moves relative to material" what do you mean?
>>
>>Stuart
>
>I will give example for mobility of rooks in fruit in the opening.
>
>In fruit the formula of opening mobility for rooks is 0.02*(R-7) when R is the
>number of moves of the rook.
>
>It means that if you have one rook and it has 8 moves you get bonus of +0.02
>pawns but if you have 2 rooks that every one of them has 4 moves you get bonus
>of 0.02*(4-7) for every rook or in other word panelty of 0.12 pawns
>
>You can see that the same number of moves for rooks(8 moves) can give bonus or
>panelty depending on the question if the side has one rook or 2 rooks.
>
>Uri

Thanks.




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