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Re: Asymmetrical static evaluation?
« Reply #30 on: Jun 11th, 2007, 7:31pm » |
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I'm glad to see someone bring it back to the original issue.
It occurs to me that Arimaa frequently goes through many turns of both players alternating en prise or goal threats while one player attempts to build up two threats at once. If, say, gold has a threat on the board, silver may be able to delay it without preventing gold from re-establishing it, and this alternation may proceed 5 or 6 turns until silver either breaks the threat entirely, establishes a matching threat, or gold establishes two threats at once.
It seems to me that the kind of state that would lead to this play would be impossible to evaluate correctly if you did not take side to move into account in your evaluation function.
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