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Subject: Re: Queen wandering, was: Crafty 14,9

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 12:42:24 05/11/98

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On May 11, 1998 at 10:38:32, Roland Pfister wrote:

>1. penalize the queen if it is on file a, b, g or h during development.
>   I use that.

This is probably pretty good.  It would keep the queen off of b3, which
is on the way to b7, which is on the way to a8, which is on the way to
0-1.

>2. penalize queen for distance to its minor pieces (bishops and
>knights).
>  I have not tried that yet. The idea is: if a queen is supported by one
>  minor piece it can be very dangerous (for the opponent). If she is
>alone
>  there are only shallow threats.

If you want to avoid an off-side queen, this probably wouldn't help, but
it might increase aggression, and result in actually finding some of
those nice combinations that everyone can spot in 2 seconds in the
tactical test suites.

bruce



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