While surfing I found this page which may be of interest on the subject :
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisma ... alance.htm
Some of you may know it. It could help tuning the eval in some particular cases.
Yves
What are good ranges for positional values of the pieces?
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Re: What are good ranges for positional values of the pieces
Thanks!YL84 wrote:While surfing I found this page which may be of interest on the subject :
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisma ... alance.htm
Some of you may know it. It could help tuning the eval in some particular cases.
Yves
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Re: What are good ranges for positional values of the pieces
Thanks for the link, interesting stuff. I still prefer to read things like that instead of digging in other sources for information like that.
Although Kaufmanns article has obviously stronger players in mind it seems to hold some truth even for weak chess engines.
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Roman
Although Kaufmanns article has obviously stronger players in mind it seems to hold some truth even for weak chess engines.
best regards
Roman
Re: What are good ranges for positional values of the pieces
Every chessprogrammer should take a look at these two:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisma ... alance.htm
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisma ... _pawns.htm
IM Larry Kaufman estimates piecevalues statistically sound.
Oliver
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisma ... alance.htm
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisma ... _pawns.htm
IM Larry Kaufman estimates piecevalues statistically sound.
Oliver