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Subject: Re: A question on Depth reduction?

Author: Pallav Nawani

Date: 11:57:30 08/04/04

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On August 04, 2004 at 14:39:39, Gopikrishna wrote:

>I am doing depth reduction.
>
>if (nextdepth > 2)
>{
>   if (!Iscapture && !Ispromotion)
>     {
>         score= eval();
>        if (alpha >  score + red_margin[nextdepth])
>         nextdepth--;
>     }
>}
>
>So should I have to do full evaluation or just evaluate the material score and
>pawn structure alone? Because if I do full evaluation for each move it would
>take plenty of time? Thanks.

Material score + Piece Square tables + Pawn structure should be OK.

Pallav




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