Passed pawn evaluation

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jdart
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Re: Passed pawn evaluation

Post by jdart »

I have an array that scores passed pawn blockers by rank of the pawn and distance from the blocker to the pawn. It is auto-tuned. I think for the case shown it is about 1/3 pawn subtracted from the value of the passer.

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Re: Passed pawn evaluation

Post by bob »

My eye says "look at the space, young Skywalker..." White has almost none, black has plenty.