Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: start position

Author: James Robertson

Date: 21:37:43 01/28/00

Go up one level in this thread


On January 28, 2000 at 21:26:38, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On January 28, 2000 at 21:12:22, walter irvin wrote:
>
>>i am doing a experiment with rebel .took away the open book and let it think .i
>>was just curious to see if it could find any advantage for white in the start
>>position ? so far 18 ply it likes e4 score +.41 .i think that the start position
>>is a draw with best play .i think that even a computer like db would not find
>>any advantage better than .60 .also doing this with sargon III , i found
>>something that makes no sense to me .after 12 ply it liked e4 but in the pv
>>about the 5th ply it was giveing away a bishop for nothing although it did not
>>show up in the score ?? does anyone know how this could be ?????
>
>I could change a few numbers in my program and make 1. e4 worth +18 pawns. All
>this stuff is arbitrary. Letting a program search the initial position for a
>long time is useless.

Not necessarily. If you let your program search a long time and it decides white
is ahead by 18 pawns, you know you need to do some bughunting fast. :)

James

>
>-Tom



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.