Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:21:30 03/21/03
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On March 21, 2003 at 13:38:53, William H Rogers wrote: >In one of my first attempts in programming I used to assign more weight to a >pawn that was being captured on the last 3 ranks, ie. a white pawn sitting on >the sixth rank was given a value of 2 points instead of only 1. More points were >given as it approached the end of the file. >My thoughts at the time were if a pawn was withing one square of being promoted >to a queen then it was worth giving up a knight, bishop or even a Rook to insure >that it got promoted. Have not implemented that logic into my newest programs as >of yet. >Bill I think that it is a bad idea. You are talking about piece square table for pawn in the 6th and pawn in the 7th if I understand correctly. Advanced pawn get a bonus also in movei but I think that your bonuses are too big. Uri
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