Author: David Blackman
Date: 19:34:08 01/20/99
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On January 20, 1999 at 12:58:08, Laurence Chen wrote: >This is one of the elements in chess which is very difficult to understand, it >still puzzles me a lot. The problem is how do you know that you got control of >center? Is there a way to measure this, if so, how? The easy way to tell a computer about this is just to give it a medium to large bonus for pawn on the 4 centre squares (e4, e5, d4, d5), and smaller bonuses for pawns on squares near the centre (maybe c3, c4, d3, e3, f4 for white). A bonus for knights near the centre helps too. This is pretty basic, and i'm sure some of the top programs do a lot more than this, but even this gives a program some idea of centre control if it's done at the end of a 10 ply search.
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