Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:05:59 09/17/99
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On September 17, 1999 at 10:08:31, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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? I don't think you can get it anywhere. Nobody has ever made one (unless you count KPkp or the like.) There was some discussion a while back about storing precalculated pawn race data in a tablebase like structure. There were some problems with the approach pointed out. It was a thread here in CCC a while back.
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