Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 19:26:29 06/30/04
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On June 30, 2004 at 19:50:23, William Bryant wrote: >I am looking for suggestion or references for setting the Delta value in the >QSearch used to filter captures. Those captures that don't exceed the Delta >value are pruned even though they may be winning captures. > >Thanks in advance. > >William How big a positional bonus does your Eval assign? ie if you give a 150 point bonus for an advanced passed pawn or a well posted knight then a delta of about 150 would be in order. If the capture plus however much the Eval can change due to the capture won't get you to alpha then that capture has no hope. Dan H.
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