Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 13:17:21 04/22/98
I've never been satisfied with my program's handling of king safety. It has these few factors combined linearly: king on open/half-open file king next to open/half-open files king centrality in ending king non-centrality in non-ending king near any pawn masses in endgame king near friendly pawn masses in non-endgame attacks to squares immediately next to king The totality of these is generally far less than a pawn since I use millipawns and mostly small values for bonuses/penalties (usually 1 millipawn to 200 millipawns). Perhaps I should let king safety total more or less than +1/-1 pawn? Anyway, I'm looking to see if there are some good heuristics I've left out. --Stuart
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