Re: It is Strange

On May 2, 5:09 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

> Your choices are to add a few choice heuristics to the endgame
> evaluation function when the number of pieces is 4 or less and/or to
> implement basic tablebases for the classic 3 & 4 piece endgames.
>
> These would be roughly (in both KBBk and KBNk) to:
>
> Make the winning sides king bolder and take the opposition with the
> enemy king.
> Restrict the mobility of the enemy king to 2 or 3 moves where
> possible.
> Restrict the region of the board available to the enemy king.
> Winning side scores for forcing enemy king to edge of board, bonus for
> corners.
> Avoid stalemates (stating the obvious)


  For human players, the last heuristic -- that of
studiously avoiding stalemate -- might be moved
to the head of the pack, once the enemy King
is driven against the side of the board.  :>D


  -- help bot