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Subject: Re: Writing a meta-language to describe eval function=about Tempi

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 13:33:19 07/03/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 15:54:59, Matthew White wrote:

>One way of increasing the steps is counting pawn moves. I forget who said it,
>but pieces are supposed to be moved in the opening, not pawns. The only reason
>to move pawns is so that pieces can go to good squares or to prevent the
>opponent from gaining too much space. This obviously doesn't account for moving
>pieces multiple times, but it is a start.

This according to Nimzowitsch.
I believe the modern view is that pawn moves might also serve to control key
squares (e.g. center squares).

Andrei

• =about Tempi, pawn moves and eval function -(i dis agree with M>) margolies,marc 00:53:14 07/04/03
  • Re: =about Tempi, pawn moves and eval function -(i dis agree with M>) Andrei Fortuna 02:31:27 07/04/03
    • Re: =about Tempi, pawn moves and eval function -(i dis agree with M>) margolies,marc 22:26:37 07/05/03
      • Re: =about Tempi, pawn moves and eval function -(i dis agree with M>) Andrei Fortuna 02:00:16 07/06/03
        • Re: =about Tempi, pawn moves and eval function -(i dis agree with M>) Ingo Lindam 05:09:17 07/06/03
  • Re: =about Tempi, pawn moves and eval function Ingo Lindam 01:28:53 07/04/03

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