Author: KarinsDad
Date: 11:05:40 01/26/99
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On January 26, 1999 at 13:26:59, Andrew Williams wrote: [snip] >> >>Once the rooks and queens are removed from the board, the only piece that can >>simultaneously attack a pawn and the square in front of the pawn is the king >>(and this only from 3 squares unless the pawn checks the king). Hence, there is >>a threshold where the remaining pieces can either attack the pawn, or the >> square >>in front of the pawn, but not both simultaneously. Therefore, at least two >>pieces must be used together to attack a pawn and the nature of the game changes >>accordingly. > >Thanks for this. Can you imagine that I had never thought of it this way! Are >you a strong player by the way? For that matter, is anyone else in the U2600 >club any good as a player? (I'm useless). Hey, exchange of ideas is the name of the game here. No problemo. I don't think that my program counts in the U2600 club. It is currently in the U1000 club. I'm pretty feeble at chess as well. I can understand the concepts, but cannot implement them consistency. I tend to play a 2400 level combination followed by a 900 level blunder. In fact, I would estimate that 60% of the games I lose (playing people 400 points above me or less), I have at least an advantage at some point in the game, but I either blunder or gradually let it disintegrate. It's really frustrating. I think I have Lasker's disease where your opponent gets the pyschological edge because you are winning. > > >> >>Also, an open file becomes less useful when the rooks and queen are gone, so >>those bonus points for having a half or fully open file should go away at that >>point. >> >>Does your pawn structure take into account open diagonals for bishop and queen? >>A harder concept to really understand and implement. > >No. It's one of those things that I think would be nice to have, but not >nice enough to justify the time spent calculating it. PostModernist is an >*extremely* inefficient program, so things like this are out of my reach at >the moment. > Well, you are a lot further along than I am. Keep at it! [snip] >Good luck, > >Andrew Same to you :) KarinsDad
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