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H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Mar 23 06:24 AM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from Fri Mar 22 02:05 PM:

Yesterday I forgot to push the patch of base-model.js that Scirocco needs to work; for evaluating the promotability it needs the total army strength. Rather than having it calculate that again, I now pass it from the standard chessbase Evaluate function, (which already calculated it, but then only passes the difference of the two armies in evalValues), as the 4th parameter to the dedicated evaluate().

Perhaps everything that Evaluate() puts so much effort in calculating (by looping over all pieces) should be put into a single object, rather than just variables private to Evaluate(), so that the dedicated evaluate() can use that directly by passing it this object. Rather than having to rely on the often useles combinations that are made of the results and passed as evalValues.

BTW, I was a bit shocked how weak the Jocly AI is. I tried a game of Scirocco against the Interactive Diagram, with Jocly on level Medium (~10 sec?), and the I.D. at 2.5 ply (~0.1sec), and even though the I.D. did some trades I considered bad (but were good according to the piece values it guestimated) it massacred Jocly (until it finally lost with a huge advantage by not knowing that repetition is forbidden). It appears that Jocly at this level still overlooks quite elementary tactics, such as the only protector of a piece being traded away so the piece hangs, or by relying on protection from a piece that is soft-pinned.


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