🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Sep 2, 2016 05:31 PM UTC:
When Steve Evans was working on how to make Zillions-of-Games play Shogi better, his area of focus was on changing the piece values. Instead of releasing his own Shogi ZRF, though, he let me combine our efforts together. So, the Shogi ZRF I put out has various tweakings of the piece values to get it to play better. The point being that knowledge of piece values is important for deciding which moves to make. If a Chess program, for example, evaluated a Queen as worth one point and a Pawn as worth nine, it would usually lose against humans.
When Steve Evans was working on how to make Zillions-of-Games play Shogi better, his area of focus was on changing the piece values. Instead of releasing his own Shogi ZRF, though, he let me combine our efforts together. So, the Shogi ZRF I put out has various tweakings of the piece values to get it to play better. The point being that knowledge of piece values is important for deciding which moves to make. If a Chess program, for example, evaluated a Queen as worth one point and a Pawn as worth nine, it would usually lose against humans.