From: Glen Miner NEWBRIDGE COM> Date: 10 dec 1996 Subject: Re: Evaluation (was Re: Computer Shogi) > First of all: no, having two golds in hand is not worth twice as much as one. > In most positions it will be much easier to find a tsume with, say, a silver, > a knight and two golds than fout golds, notwithstanding the fact that you > would probably count a gold highest as an individual piece, simply > because having more kinds of pieces in hand is having more potential > attack moves. This also means in general that it is harder to defend > when your opponent has lots of different options. Point taken. I will code the brain to reflect this. > I suspect that the values for Gold, Silver, Knight and Lance belong in > that order, and not too far apart. How about this for pieces on the board: Unpromoted: Promoted: Pawn = 10 40 Lance = 30 50 Knight= 40 55 Silver= 50 60 Gold = 60 - Bishop= 100 150 Rook = 110 160 And for each square of mobility the Bishop or Rook has, add 1 point. Comments/Suggestions? > I know this wasn't very concrete, but did it help a bit? It certainly did help... there were some good ideas in there that I hadn't thought of... Peace ===[ Gabo / [ABC] : gaminer undergrad math uwaterloo ca ]=================== Latest ABC Shogi: http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gaminer/shogi.html "What Greenpeace spends in a year General Motors spends in four hours" -Moby