Pawn storms

[Rowen]

Anyone know of any engine or engine parameters/personalities that like to engage in pawn storms?

[Jjaw]

Use a chees engine that has parameters for passed pawns , pawn structure , mobility and material. I have gotten close to a pawn storm engine by playing with variations of these parameters. Usual range on these parameters is 0 to 200. I recommend fruit 2.3.1.

[jefk]

in Rodent III there's also a pawnstorm (UCI) parameter, besides many other parameters btw

with my (rather scarce) human chess knowledge i thought that pawn storms are only useful in closed
positions; pushing pawns in front of your king can be dangerous, especially in open positions.
In closed positions it makes sense, certainly imo when having a bishop fianchetto.

So to get such such closed positions more often, you would imo need a specialized book.
(similar as to a recent comment in another thread with opposite castling)

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

most aggressive engine in pawn storms I know is Patzer by Roland Pfister (Germany).
Roland created a lot of extra code for it.

Good examples are the games from the tourneys in Leiden.
Often Patzer have luck with it in the early mid-games, but lost later the games in the late mid-games ... because that style was too much in pawn-storms.

Yeah, the good and old Patzer!



Best
Frank

[Rowen]

Thanks for the responses. I am aware of pawn storm etc parameters in Rodent and fruit {although I cant find them in my Fruit 2.3.1, but other fruits and togas do have them) as do other engines, also sometimes evaluation (material) can be changed to encourage pawn moves. I will try the engine Patzer also. I seem to be relatively weak at defending against pawn storms so I like to train against them. Perhaps in the future engines can be trained to play in certain styles I guess this has already occurred.