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I am curious about your evaluation function and how you go about parameter optimization of that evaluation function.

I don't recall if you have open source code. but my interest lies in considering the static evaluation function only, and its ability to be put into mathematical flat format, with symbolic parameters in equations, and a separate table for the values of all the parameters, whether you guessed them or not.

The names given to component are not always telling of the exact algebraic function of the full position information input. Do you know of the SF eval web guide. It is useless with that regard, as all the parameters have unsourced values. but we can test interactively one FEN at a time, and get a table of component outputs, not just the combination of those components into SF evaluation.

Would it be difficult to express your evaluation in mathematical format (not here obviously, there is no support for math. symbols that i know, unless using pictures, or being very good with unicode symbols, some of which i found to be illegal , depending on various text features).

The SF version in the web guide does try its best to flatten some, but it is still a web of components...

I can use symbolic manipulators to deal with big building blocks and experessions (well i use to be able to do that a lot, would be a flashback, a happy one).