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Subject: Re: Pawn Majorities - an interesting evaluation issue

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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