Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 14:48:41 09/03/04
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On September 03, 2004 at 17:17:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 03, 2004 at 16:56:53, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On September 03, 2004 at 16:53:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On September 03, 2004 at 16:12:57, Eran Karu wrote: >>> >>>>. >>> >>> >>>2 >>> >>>look at main.c comments. >> >>I find the pawn changes to be much better than v19.15. This is from about 60 >>games thus far ar 30/0 vs Ruffian 2.1.0. >> >>Peter > > >There was definitely a long-term problem. The blocked pawn code was doubling up >behind the isolated pawn code in ways I didn't intend, making the penalty much >too high in some cases. Was watching a game the other night where the score was >about +1.0 yet it looked only marginally better for white to me. Investigation >found the problem and some immediately better pawn structure play in the games >after the fix.. I have noticed the same as well. The pawn structures that it now creates seem to be much more solid, and long term based. Before it was almost like Crafty wanted to swap out the pawns quickly to get to the "meat" of the game. Peter
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