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Subject: Re: passed pawn evaluation.

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 20:41:01 01/12/04

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On January 12, 2004 at 20:28:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 12, 2004 at 17:05:06, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>On January 12, 2004 at 10:02:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>Watch out about "connected passers."
>>>
>>>give white two pawns on d2/e2.  Give black two pawns on a2/h2.  Both kings
>>>in the center.  Which side do you like?  :)

>>Wouldn't appropriately initialized piece square tables still give the black
>>pawns on the 2nd rank a much higher score than white connected pawns on the 2nd
>>rank?

>If they are that advanced, yes.  But here I was describing a position where
>all pawns are on their original ranks.  And on occasion, the two connected
>passers are better, but the king has to be up supporting them so they can't
>be stopped.

Maybe I'm confused about the position. I thought you meant this:

[D]4k3/8/8/8/8/8/p2PP2p/4K3 w - - 0 1

But maybe you meant this?

[D]4k3/p6p/8/8/8/8/3PP3/4K3 w - - 0 1



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