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Subject: Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-)

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 01:27:14 02/27/06

On February 27, 2006 at 04:23:09, Alessandro Scotti wrote:

>Hi all,
>I would like to include outside and candidate passers in my engine evaluation,
>but it seems I can't find a definition in plain English.
>Can you explain those terms to me?!? Oh... and maybe a few test positions would
>be helpful as well! :-)
>Thanks!

An outside passer is a passed pawn on the flank, usually the a,b,g or h file.

A candidate passer is a potential passed pawn usually waiting to be created
through exchanges and most often as a result of a pawn majority.

Graham.

Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Alessandro Scotti 03:08:43 02/27/06
- Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Christos Gitsis 04:37:14 02/27/06
- Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Tord Romstad 03:24:23 02/27/06
  - Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Uri Blass 06:01:33 02/27/06
    - Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Robert Hyatt 09:39:29 02/27/06
    - Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Uri Blass 06:07:34 02/27/06
      - Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Alessandro Scotti 06:36:43 02/27/06
        
        Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Günther Simon 07:10:30 02/27/06
        
        Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Uri Blass 09:59:31 02/28/06
        
        Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Robert Hyatt 11:57:46 02/27/06
  - Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Alessandro Scotti 04:02:19 02/27/06
    - Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) h.g.muller 09:23:31 02/27/06
      - Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Alessandro Scotti 12:34:52 02/27/06
        
        Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) h.g.muller 00:28:09 02/28/06
        
        Wrong FEN! h.g.muller 00:45:00 02/28/06
      - Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-) Robert Hyatt 12:04:34 02/27/06
        
        Re: correction Robert Hyatt 12:07:35 02/27/06
      - Correction! h.g.muller 09:44:44 02/27/06

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