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Subject: Re: Positional scores in Eval()

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:21:52 04/09/01

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On April 09, 2001 at 17:08:49, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 09, 2001 at 16:49:21, Normand M. Blais wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>then his program will volunteerly
>accept a pawn and get mated a few moves later.
>
>A good test position is DIEP - crafty wmccc2000:
>
>e2-e4     (2:00:00,2:00:00)  book
>c7-c5     (2:00:00,1:59:19)
>g1-f3     (2:00:00,1:59:19)  book
>d7-d6     (2:00:00,1:59:06)
>d2-d4     (2:00:00,1:59:06)  book
>c5xd4     (2:00:00,1:58:48)
>f3xd4     (1:59:59,1:58:48)  book
>g8-f6     (1:59:59,1:58:21)
>b1-c3     (1:59:59,1:58:21)  book
>a7-a6     (1:59:59,1:58:02)
>c1-g5     (1:59:59,1:58:02)  book
>e7-e6     (1:59:59,1:57:44)
>f2-f4     (1:59:59,1:57:44)  book
>d8-b6     (1:59:59,1:57:29)
>d1-d2     (1:59:59,1:57:29)  book
>b6xb2     (1:59:59,1:57:16)
>a1-b1     (1:59:59,1:57:16)  book
>b2-a3     (1:59:59,1:56:53)
>f4-f5     (1:59:59,1:56:53)  book
>b8-c6     (1:59:59,1:56:28)
>f5xe6     (1:59:59,1:56:28)  book
>f7xe6     (1:59:59,1:55:59)
>d4xc6     (1:59:59,1:55:59)  book
>b7xc6     (1:59:59,1:55:43)
>e4-e5     (1:59:59,1:55:43)  book
>d6xe5     (1:59:59,1:51:36)
>g5xf6     (1:59:59,1:51:36)  book
>g7xf6     (1:59:59,1:50:43)
>c3-e4     (1:59:59,1:50:43)  book
>f8-e7     (1:59:59,1:46:38)
>f1-e2     (1:59:59,1:46:38)  book
>
>Here crafty played O-O?? it castled straight into the mate here by
>doing that. O-O is a big blunder. Diep wmccc2000 played h5 there.
>
>Let's have a look whether current version also does that...
>
>
>
>
>
>best regards,
>Vincent


If you will post it in a standard machine readable form rather than in
that e2-e4 gobbledygook, I will try it.

:)



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