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Subject: Re: king and pawns ending

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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