Author: Martin Giepmans
Date: 14:31:48 03/31/03
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On March 31, 2003 at 15:35:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 31, 2003 at 15:20:35, Martin Giepmans wrote: > >>On March 31, 2003 at 14:35:48, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>Today latest movei evaluates passed pawns and protected passed pawns based on >>>the ranks of the pawn(I will later change it to evaluate them >>>based on other factors like square of the kings). >>> >>>The problem is that the order of evaluation is not correct. >>> >>>If I have a pawn at b5 and another passed pawn at c5 then >>>I want to evaluate them as better than pawn at b4 and >>>protected passed pawn at c5. >>> >>>I thought to give a bonus for passed pawn that has pawn in the left side of it >>>but the problem is that in that case the evaluation is not >>>symmetric and in the folowing diagram if the black pawn is in c6 and not f6 >>>I get different result. >> >>I think giving bonus/2 if there is a pawn on the right OR on the left side >>would do the trick. It's symmetrical. > >Does this imply that one passed pawn is as good as two? > >Not in my book. :) > > Also not in mine;) In the case of 2 neighbor passed pawns (c4 and b4 for example) *each* pawn would get a bonus. <snip>
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