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Subject: PushPP Comment Re: Interesting search extension data

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 06:42:16 01/25/01

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On January 24, 2001 at 23:39:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>push passed pawns is an extension that is triggered if a passed pawn is pushed
>to the 7th rank only.
>pushpp
>0.00 sum of times(squared)=29373
>0.25 sum of times(squared)=29385
>0.50 sum of times(squared)=29336
>0.75 sum of times(squared)=29360
>1.00 sum of times(squared)=29375
>pushing a passed pawn had hardly any effect, but that might be a
>result of the test suite rather than a useless extension.  The default
>value for this is also .75
>
>

Doesn't Crafty advance pawns in the evaluation anyway (until blocked or
captured, I have not studied the code for some time), and then do its
sophisticated passed pawn eval?  This might account for the negligible extension
effect.  Just a thought.
Brian




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