What's data can be contained in the PST?

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ernesto
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What's data can be contained in the PST?

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Reading previous post i have the cuestión

If the premature Queen can be contained in the PST?

And What's data can be contained in the PST?
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Re: What's data can be contained in the PST?

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If you have game phase dependent PSTs, then theoretically yes, you should be able to encode that an early queen is bad. But I am not sure if it makes much sense to force this. Most engine games are played with at least a shallow opening book, to avoid duplicate games.