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Latest revision as of 18:44, 25 February 2021

Home * Evaluation * Pawn Structure * Candidate Passed Pawn

Candidate passed pawn,

a pawn on a half-open file, which, if the board had only pawns on it, would eventually become a passed pawn by moving forward. Whereas this definition is obvious for a human, in a form presented above it would require no less than a separate recursive search routine. For that reason, computers have to use approximations of that rule.

One possibility is to define a pawn as a candidate, if no square on its path is controlled by more enemy pawns than own pawns. However, this simple heuristics rules out an early recognition of a candidate passed pawns. For example with white pawns on a4 and b5 and black pawn on a7, the b5 pawn would be viewed as a candidate passer only after a4-a5.

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White and Black candidates (b5, g5)

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  1. Hans Kmoch (1959, 1990). Pawn Power in Chess. New York: Dover, 1990. Previous ed.: New York: McKay, 1959. ISBN 0-486-26486-6

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