Author: Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz
Date: 15:08:33 11/21/03
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>Hi Georg, > >my "too early" queen term makes the otherwise better white queen about equal >with the black one. The "too early" penalty is dependent on the number of own >and opponent knights and bishops on their initial squares and their ability to >move. There is also the pinned knight and the black kings bishop, which >compensate the "too early" queen a bit. > >Another idea is to amplify the material difference (specially with pawns vs. >piece) if positional evaluation score of the lower material side is worse some >threshold too. > >>How does one achieve both ? >>- avoid too much queen movement in the early middlegame >>- not make it think the white queen here is bad >> >> >>Georg > I do a similar thing, and my Queen hardly ever moves when there are "too many minor pieces developed", while playing without a book. My engine is still crap anyway, but this is a minor problem to worry about at the moment. >Queen movement without real threats should not happen since other pieces are >developed. So it's a matter of tuning and weights. > >Gerd
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