Author: William Bryant
Date: 19:52:42 01/11/00
The issues of adding a term to the evaluation for blocked pawns has come up in at least one thread recently, and got me thinking about adding this to the evaluation. There are several ways to do this and it raised several questions. Do you count pawns blocked by opposite pawns only? Do you also count pawns blocked by opposing pieces? Do you count pawns blocked by your own pawns ? (I would think this would be handled by a doubled pawn penalty.) Do you count blocked pawns only for the side on move? Otherwise, for pawns blocked by enemy pawns, the same penalty will be applied to both sides in the evaluation and the net score remains unchanged? Any thoughs or comments would be appreciated. William wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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