From: Stéphane Nicolet <cassio@free.fr>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:21:24 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Small bonus to favor thorn pawns
X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4c72c95359e28ea3e5a4357a7679de794ebd3e55;ds=sidebyside

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
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
Ptnml(0-2): 908, 12083, 40708, 12521, 964
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ee74e60aae8aec816ab756a

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2747

Bench: 5299456
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diff --git a/src/psqt.cpp b/src/psqt.cpp
index 7fa36ac8..abd23547 100644
--- a/src/psqt.cpp
+++ b/src/psqt.cpp
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ constexpr Score PBonus[RANK_NB][FILE_NB] =
    { },
    { S(  3,-10), S(  3, -6), S( 10, 10), S( 19,  0), S( 16, 14), S( 19,  7), S(  7, -5), S( -5,-19) },
    { S( -9,-10), S(-15,-10), S( 11,-10), S( 15,  4), S( 32,  4), S( 22,  3), S(  5, -6), S(-22, -4) },
-   { S( -8,  6), S(-23, -2), S(  6, -8), S( 20, -4), S( 40,-13), S( 17,-12), S(  4,-10), S(-12, -9) },
+   { S( -4,  6), S(-23, -2), S(  6, -8), S( 20, -4), S( 40,-13), S( 17,-12), S(  4,-10), S( -8, -9) },
    { S( 13,  9), S(  0,  4), S(-13,  3), S(  1,-12), S( 11,-12), S( -2, -6), S(-13, 13), S(  5,  8) },
-   { S( -5, 28), S(-12, 20), S( -7, 21), S( 22, 28), S( -8, 30), S( -5,  7), S(-15,  6), S(-18, 13) },
+   { S(  5, 28), S(-12, 20), S( -7, 21), S( 22, 28), S( -8, 30), S( -5,  7), S(-15,  6), S( -8, 13) },
    { S( -7,  0), S(  7,-11), S( -3, 12), S(-13, 21), S(  5, 25), S(-16, 19), S( 10,  4), S( -8,  7) }
   };