Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 20:41:46 08/10/04
This repy from Bob Hyatt to Alessandro 5 years ago
seems the best explanation so far. Anything to add
anyone? Implementation gotchas?
Mine is (roughly) and untested until the ovenright run:
quiesce
:
baseval = eval();
:
while next capture move available
if (value_of_captured_piece + (2*maxpositionalscoresofar) + baseval
< alpha)
continue;
else
makemove
see or mvv/pva, etc.
decide whether to search further
unmakemove
fi
endloop
:
:
maxpositionalscoresofar is for the side on move.
>What is the 'delta" used for? Thank you.
>
>Alessandro
>
>
It is a 'guestimate' of how far up the positional eval can pull the score
in addition to the material being gained(lost) by the capture being
considered. IE suppose alpha is 0 (dead equal game) and when you get to
this node the material score is -400. If you play PxN, you gain 300, so
the score is at -100, which is _still_ well below alpha. What do you
assume your positional score can add? 100? If so, then you ought to try
this capture. 200? Then you definitely want to try this capture? 50?
then that won't pull the score above alpha and there is no point in trying,
if you are pretty _sure_ that 50 is the biggest score you can get...
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