center control scales poorly

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Chess engine that I hacked up in grad school

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center control scales poorly #17

Open tildedave opened 13 years ago

tildedave commented 13 years ago

currently the formula used to calculate center control is numAttacks * squareValue -- unfortunately squareValue is linearly increasing: 1,2,3,4 --> is an attack on the 6th rank really that much more valuable than an attack on the 5th?