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Subject: Re: Pawn Majorities - an interesting evaluation issue

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 07:08:31 09/17/99

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On September 17, 1999 at 03:31:00, Dann Corbit wrote:

>How about a pawn ranking?
>
>E.g. you do a pawn race calculation to see (for each pawn, for both sides) if it
>can be queened.  Also, calculate any cost associated with prevention of queening
>(e.g.: you can stop it but lose a knight).  Then you know the approximate value
>of any pawn on the board.
>
>Kind of a similar idea to the "pawn tablebase" idea that was done a while back
>but calculated on the fly instead.

I'm interested in precisely that idea, 'the "pawn tablebase"'. Where can I get
more information on it?



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