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==Marsland==
[[Tony Marsland]] mentioned Papa and other programs participating the [[WCCC 1974]] in his handwritten notes on the Hayes and Levy book <ref>[http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/Public/Awit-Wita-ComputerChess/Wita-base/WitaNotes/wita-awit%2319-box2.pdf wita-awit#19-box2.pdf] from [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/Public/Awit-Wita-ComputerChess/Wita-base/WitaNotes/ Wita Notes] by [[Tony Marsland]]</ref> :
[[Freedom]] and [[Papa]] both use [[Mobility|mobility]] as their primary term in their [[Evaluation functionFunction|evaluation functions]]. As with [[Awit|Wita]], both use the ratio of computer's moves / opponent moves. Papa and Wita also multiply by the ratio of the [[Square Control|squares controlled]] and Papa goes one step further and takes the logarithm of this product to form the "entropy" of the position. The true merit of this entropy over the product ratio was not made clear, but it does ensure that in extreme situations the evaluation remains more closely bounded.
==The Merit==
