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The pawn structure prices a passer by its file and rank alone, so a
blockaded passer counts as a free one and neither king's position matters.
This adds a leaf term for passers on the fourth to the seventh, by rank:
both kings' king step distance from the stop square and from the queening
square, whether the stop is taken, whether the other side attacks it, and
whether no piece stands between the pawn and the eighth.
The weights were fitted on 5,026,360 quiet positions from 109,141 games
with every other weight held, over five folds that hold out both games of
an opening pair together. Held out loss fell by 0.000440 at 22 standard
errors clustered on the pair. That fit read a blockaded passer on the
seventh above a free one in the ending and paid an attacked stop in the
midgame, which is what a corpus of quiet positions teaches, so the weights
shipped are a refit with each one held to the sign chess expects: 0.000393
at 19.6 standard errors, and the same at whole centipawns. The term's
spread over the held out positions is 21 cp.
The passers depend on the pawns alone, so the set is kept in a table of
its own under the pawn key, and only the squares are read at each leaf.
The term costs 4.83% of the games suite's instructions (1,073.5 to 1,125.3
a node over the same 9,409,127 nodes). Setting every weight to zero turns
it off at compile time.
The bench grows 7.5%. Two tests needed a new reading of the tree: the rook
and pawns ending now ties two moves at depth six, so the aspiration test
uses the quiet middlegame, and WAC.021's floor at depth nine now comes
after 105,374 nodes, so the budget moves to 120,000. The effort test's
sampling goes from one node in ten to one in four, since at ten no sampled
key was reached by one side alone. The tactical suite
finds 230 rather than 228 and the strategic suite scores 104,395 rather
than 104,298.
Bench: 11916992
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RY5UTjLftn71Vk2HrJ5iUS
The pawn structure prices a passer by its file and rank alone, so a
blockaded passer counts as a free one and neither king's position matters.
This adds a leaf term for passers on the fourth to the seventh, by rank:
both kings' king step distance from the stop square and from the queening
square, whether the stop is taken, whether the other side attacks it, and
whether no piece stands between the pawn and the eighth.
The weights were fitted on 5,026,360 quiet positions from 109,141 games
with every other weight held, over five folds that hold out both games of
an opening pair together. Held out loss fell by 0.000440 at 22 standard
errors clustered on the pair. That fit read a blockaded passer on the
seventh above a free one in the ending and paid an attacked stop in the
midgame, which is what a corpus of quiet positions teaches, so the weights
shipped are a refit with each one held to the sign chess expects: 0.000393
at 19.6 standard errors, and the same at whole centipawns. The term's
spread over the held out positions is 21 cp.
The passers depend on the pawns alone, so the set is kept in a table of
its own under the pawn key, and only the squares are read at each leaf.
The term costs 4.83% of the games suite's instructions (1,073.5 to 1,125.3
a node over the same 9,409,127 nodes). Setting every weight to zero turns
it off at compile time.
The bench grows 7.5%. Two tests needed a new reading of the tree: the rook
and pawns ending now ties two moves at depth six, so the aspiration test
uses the quiet middlegame, and WAC.021's floor at depth nine now comes
after 105,374 nodes, so the budget moves to 120,000. The effort test's
sampling goes from one node in ten to one in four, since at ten no sampled
key was reached by one side alone. The tactical suite
finds 230 rather than 228 and the strategic suite scores 104,395 rather
than 104,298.
Bench: 11916992
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 noreply@anthropic.com
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RY5UTjLftn71Vk2HrJ5iUS