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Stockfish 16120518 - new version


Stockfish, UCI chess engine

Leader of the ranking list JCER = 3368

🔬 Author: Stéphane Nicolet 
More:

Timestamp: 1480960147 

Pawn flank attacks 

This patch tweaks some pawn values to favor flank attacks. 

The first part of the patch increases the midgame psqt values of external pawns to launch more attacks (credits to user GuardianRM for this idea), while the second part increases the endgame connection values for pawns on upper ranks. 

Passed STC: 
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00] 
Total: 34997 W: 6328 L: 6055 D: 22614 

and LTC: 
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00] 
Total: 13844 W: 1832 L: 1650 D: 10362 

Bench: 5884767


Stockfish 16120518 - download



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