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Subject: Re: Positional scores in Eval()

Author: Normand M. Blais

Date: 13:49:21 04/09/01

On April 09, 2001 at 16:21:56, Andrei Fortuna wrote:


>positional score > 2 PAWN_VALUE. And that will hurt my quiescence and my
>futility pruning if I assume that 2*PAWN_VALUE is max positional score. It all
>boils down to the magnitude of the positional scores versus pawn value, I think
>I have to choose either to keep big bonuses and turn futility off (or set a
>bigger margin for futility but in that case it would make futility more
>inefficient) or keep small bonuses and enjoy the reductions I get from futility
>and quiescence.

What if you multiply the value of the material by 10 (i.e. pawn = 1000 Knight =
3000 Bishop = 3000 Rook = 5000 Queen = 10000 ) and keep the positional score as
it is.

N.M.B.

Re: Positional scores in Eval() Robert Hyatt 15:20:07 04/09/01
- Re: Positional scores in Eval() Normand M. Blais 18:17:59 04/09/01
  - Re: Positional scores in Eval() Robert Hyatt 19:25:14 04/09/01
    - Re: Positional scores in Eval() Tony Werten 03:58:26 04/10/01
      - Re: Positional scores in Eval() José Carlos 06:16:28 04/10/01
        
        Re: Positional scores in Eval() Jon Dart 14:44:26 04/10/01
        
        Re: Positional scores in Eval() José Carlos 06:21:46 04/11/01
        
        Re: Positional scores in Eval() Tony Werten 10:57:33 04/10/01
        
        Re: Positional scores in Eval() José Carlos 06:15:35 04/11/01
Re: Positional scores in Eval() Vincent Diepeveen 14:08:49 04/09/01
- Re: Positional scores in Eval() Dieter Buerssner 17:08:53 04/09/01
- Re: Positional scores in Eval() Robert Hyatt 15:21:52 04/09/01
  - Re: Positional scores in Eval() Vincent Diepeveen 15:28:58 04/09/01
    - Re: Positional scores in Eval() Graham Laight 02:48:14 04/10/01
    - Re: Positional scores in Eval() Robert Hyatt 19:27:59 04/09/01
      - Re: Positional scores in Eval() Peter Kappler 20:23:35 04/09/01
        
        Re: Positional scores in Eval() Robert Hyatt 06:24:48 04/10/01

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