Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 22:02:27 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 22:52:42, William Bryant wrote: >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. Well, I'm not keen on a blocked pawn penalty but I am interested in detecting a blocked position. This could, for example, be used to increase the value of knights. I haven't implemented anything yet, but I'm thinking that counting pawns blocked by opposing pawns would be the sufficient. Maybe blocked central pawns are more important? cheers, Peter > >William >wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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