Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 15:34:10 08/04/99
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On August 04, 1999 at 18:31:25, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On August 04, 1999 at 17:59:01, Dan Andersson wrote: > >>Subjective factors? Objective factors, i presume!? Tactics rule in chess >>position evaluation. Bad positions are bad because of tactics (material is a >>measure of tactics in a way) the problem is enumerating the various evaluations, >>as (objectiv-forced) mating and drawing variations are often absent, therefore >>programs (and humans) use heuristics. In a chess program it is ok to have >>3*Minors>1*Queen. Bad trades will get pruned as tactics dominate the search. >>Sorry for my rant, but chess is mostly tactics. An experience I learned as I got >>better in chess. >> >>Regards Dan Andersson By subjective factor I mean consideration from a limited domain, which in the case used, a particular position. As for the rest, I am a NM so I about tactics.
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