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Subject: Re: What is your margin between eval and material?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 20:10:31 10/28/02

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On October 28, 2002 at 20:28:43, Pham Hong Nguyen wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I read that someone suggests the margin between the evaluations and materials
>should not excess 1.5 of pawn. However, my margin is 1.5 of ... queen and I
>think that causes many problems for my program: difficult to apply razoring,
>lazy eval, cut off in qsearch...
>
>So my questions here are:
>- What is the margin of Crafty?
>- Could you share some experiences about your margin and its
>advances/disadvances?
>
>Many thanks for any answers.
>+PHN

You can't set a static margin. If MATE is 32768 (or whatever) that's not going
to be within the 1.5 * pawn margin, or even 1.5 * queen. Maybe for the purposes
of doing something like lazy evaluation you can use a margin, but it's not
something you can use absolutely.

I've only heard that all non-material evaluation is only worth about 0.5 to 1.5
pawns. Maybe that's what you're talking about.

Russell



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