Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 07:17:19 11/04/03
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On November 04, 2003 at 09:53:16, Daniel Clausen wrote: >I don't have much experience when it comes to evaluate such positions with my >engine, but are you sure it's a good idea to evaluate two connected pawns on the >7th row at least one rook? Are there more positions where this is right than >wrong? If you do it more carefully, I don't think the risk is very big. My impression is that I win more games than I lose because of high passed pawn scores. >I can imagine that chances that this is good are rather high when there are no >queens around anymore. But with queens still on the board I can imagine lots of >checks which capture one pawn and give check at the same time, which quickly >nullifies the advantage again. Yes, you definitely should consider the material left on the board when evaluating advanced passed pawns. I scale the passed pawn evaluation depending on the amount of material left, and subtract a further amount if the opponent has a queen. Tord
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