Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 07:41:03 08/23/02
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On August 23, 2002 at 09:57:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On August 23, 2002 at 09:49:59, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On August 23, 2002 at 09:35:40, Frank Phillips wrote: >> >>>[D]7k/7p/8/8/1pP2P2/p7/3K4/8 w - - > >Maybe a fix for this is to add knowledge that 2 freepawns that are >2 files or more apart cannot be stopped and thus are runners. > >This wouldn't help for the static eval here, but it would help >because right now the search sees quickly that black has seperated >runners, but it takes a lot longer to see that white has them too. >The heuristic would draw the score closer to zero faster. > >Are there any exceptions to the rule in the first paragraph? > >-- >GCP This is one of the things I think I have screwed up. It recognised that if white captures the h or b pawn then another black passer can run. But of course this is not the full story here. Frank
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