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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