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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 21:34:41 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.

My margin is not defined because I did not define my values for material.
It is possible to do a linear regression in order to guess the evaluation based
on material but I did not do it.

Pieces gwt different value on different squares that and I have not one value
for the pieces.
6 pawns in the 7th rank are usually  evaluated as better than 8 pawns.

If people tell you that the difference between evaluation and material should
not excess 1.5 pawns then they tell you that you cannot give the right score for
pawns in the 7th.
It also means that you cannot evaluate unstoppable passed pawn in pawn endgames.

Uri



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