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Subject: Re: Value of extension for pushing passed pawn

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 13:58:40 03/11/03

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On March 11, 2003 at 16:25:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>Machine was too busy to run much of a test, but making it search c3 as black, it
>saw the score get as low as draw at depth 13, and it might well get better for
>black later, or start to climb again.  By depth 12, the score was +.5, bad for
>black
>but not _that_ bad.  Part of this is just king safety evaluation with the queen
>and rooks
>around the king on open files.

Yes, that's a great issue here, exactly what i tryed to implemented since.  With
bitboards as always it was a great fun to implement some heuristics with king in
extended center and a lot of queen and rook attacks and no or less (eg. only one
queen or rook) defenders (except the king of course) around. Also considering
queen/rook dominated areas on one side near the exposed king on the inner 16
squares, eg. two neighboared (rather) open files or ranks, with a lot safe check
possibilities.




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