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Chess engine: Stockfish 20061707Nicolet


Stockfish - UCI chess engine, compiled by Stéphane Nicolet
Rating JCER=3304

Timestamp: 1592372158
Small bonus to favor thorn pawns
We increase a little bit the midgame value of pawns on a4, h4, a6 and h6.

Original idea by Malcolm Campbell, who tried the version restricted to the pawns on the H column a couple of weeks ago and got a patch which almost passed LTC. The current pull request just adds the same idea for pawns on the A column.
Possible follow-ups: maybe tweak the a5/h5 pawn values, and/or add a malus
for very low king mobility in midgame?

STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.50,1.50}
Total: 33416 W: 6516 L: 6275 D: 20625 Elo +2.51
Ptnml(0-2): 575, 3847, 7659, 4016, 611
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ee6c4e687586124bc2c10d4

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {0.25,1.75}
Total: 134368 W: 16869 L: 16319 D: 101180 Elo +1.42
Ptnml(0-2): 908, 12083, 40708, 12521, 964
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ee74e60aae8aec816ab756a
Bench: 5299456

Stockfish 20061707Nicolet download


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