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Subject: Re: Evaluation/search question

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:03:45 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 15:31:36, Dan Andersson wrote:

>I am considering giving some kinds of root moves penalties because they do
>nothing to improve a position. For example sometimes my search returns a
>checking move, followd by retracting the piece to a square that it could have
>moved to directly, that only postpones the bad variation and essentially hides
>it from search at the cost of one tempi. Another penalty Im considering is
>against pawn moves at root position, as Nimsowitch said 'All pawn moves, are
>mistakes'. The penalties sould not be to severe I think, in the range of 1/10th
>pawn or so. Anyone tried it before? Any critique and idea are welcome. The
>rationale is that if the move is really good or forced it will be played anyway.
>
>Regards Dan Andersson

Evaluating moves is not very clever to do. it's fast, but not very clever.
You want to evaluate the leafs and not the moves.



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