I've read Kaufman's paper about the evaluation of material imbalance,
but I wonder what exactly Tord Romstad's polynomial function does.
Where do the coefficients come from?
Is this a formula which translates Kaufman's findings or is it something independent?
material.cpp, starting line 324, SF 1.7.1
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// Redundancy of major pieces, formula based on Kaufman's paper
// "The Evaluation of Material Imbalances in Chess"
// http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisman/Articles /evaluation_of_material_imbalance.htm
if (pieceCount[c][ROOK] >= 1)
matValue -= sign * ((pieceCount[c][ROOK] - 1) * RedundantRookPenalty + pieceCount[c][QUEEN] * RedundantQueenPenalty);
them = opposite_color(c);
v = 0;
// Second-degree polynomial material imbalance by Tord Romstad
//
// We use NO_PIECE_TYPE as a place holder for the bishop pair "extended piece",
// this allow us to be more flexible in defining bishop pair bonuses.
for (pt1 = NO_PIECE_TYPE; pt1 <= QUEEN; pt1++)
{
pc = pieceCount[c][pt1];
if (!pc)
continue;
vv = LinearCoefficients[pt1];
for (pt2 = NO_PIECE_TYPE; pt2 <= pt1; pt2++)
vv += pieceCount[c][pt2] * QuadraticCoefficientsSameColor[pt1][pt2]
+ pieceCount[them][pt2] * QuadraticCoefficientsOppositeColor[pt1][pt2];
v += pc * vv;
}
matValue += sign * v;