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Subject: Re: Help - Suggestiong for setting the Delta value in the QSearch

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 16:15:18 07/01/04

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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.
>

If you're in qsearch then you probably just ran a static eval of the position.
If you know the difference between the static eval of the position and the
material only eval of the position you know approximately how much of the score
is positional in basis vs. material.  I use this data to change the futility
margin in qsearch dynamically...

Good luck,
Scott



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