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=Examples=
Material and piece-square tables alone are enough for a program to play a semi-decent game of chess. Indeed, [[Tomasz Michniewski]] advocated a method of testing requiring all the tested programs to have identical, simplistic evaluation function, so that only search and efficiency issues would influence the result. One such tournament has been carried out in Poland. [[Ronald Friederich]] improved this approach using a [[Tapered Eval]] and [[Texel's Tuning Method|Texel's tuning method]] as applied in [[RofChade]] and [[PeSTO]].
* [[Simplified Evaluation Function]]