Improved evaluation
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- Added interior node recognisers for material draws
- King position is now included in the pawn hash table
Evaluation
- Added additional parameters for detached, paired and backwards pawns.
- Added linear king-pawn tropism parameters
- Adjusted king safety and blocked pawn evaluation
- Retuned all evaluation parameters
This is same version as the one playing in TCEC S16.
Estimated improvements are around 30 elo over 0.7.1 based on self play testing. Actual gains likely to be less.