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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:28:10 10/29/02

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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?

The scores in crafty can be +/-5.00, on positional stuff.  On things like
unstoppable
passed pawns the scores can be far higher...

>- Could you share some experiences about your margin and its
>advances/disadvances?

You have to use chess judgement in making those decisions.  IE as your program
plays
games, you will reach positions where you might think "no way I would try to
save that pawn
because it wrecks my position here and here."  Your eval then needs to have
scores large enough
for those flaws you found so that they outweigh the value of the pawn you might
try to save.

Ditto for exchange sacrifices.  And so forth



>
>Many thanks for any answers.
>+PHN



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