Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:39:29 02/27/06
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On February 27, 2006 at 09:01:33, Uri Blass wrote:
>On February 27, 2006 at 06:24:23, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>I have never had any success with bonuses for outside passed pawns,
>>not even if I restrict it to pawn endgames. This could be simply because
>>I haven't found the right weights, of course.
>
>I have a small bonus for outside passed pawns only in the endgame but I am not
>sure if it is productive.
>
>I define outside passed pawn as extreme passed pawn regardless of the file
>relative to other pawns.
>
>Here is by code for the case that white has passed pawn.
>
>if the passed pawn is in the biggest file(relative to files of other pawns) or
>in the smallest file I add 0.1 pawns for the evaluation.
>
>In case it is the only pawn in the board bonus of 0.2 pawns is added(usually it
>happens in endgames and in this case I have also function to reduce the score
>in many cases).
>
>if (biggest_pawn_file==biggest_power[passed_white_pawn_files])
> {
> score+=10;
> }
> if (smallest_pawn_file==smallest_power[passed_white_pawn_files])
> {
> score+=10;
> }
>
>
>>
>>I do have a small bonus for candidate passers, but I am not sure how
>>effective it is.
>
>I do not have bonus for candidate passers.
>I did not try it and one of the reason is that I was too lazy to define it.
>
>Uri
Your idea looks ok. Your "score" sucks. :)
An outside passed pawn is a _winning_ advantage. given the choice of having an
outside passer (+10) or winning a pawn on the other wing (+100) you would try to
win the pawn. I'd create the outside passer and win the game outright myself...
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