an_arbitrary_name
England

I stumbled upon the following diagram in The Amateur's Mind:

Silman says that White "enjoys some advantage in territory". How does someone determine who has the most territory in such a position?

I understand that a player's terrority is generally said to be the area behind the player's pawns, but what if some pawns are missing, like in the diagram above?

I'm thinking that maybe open files count as nobody's territory, but then the whole concept of 'territory' seems pretty redundant in positions such as the above.

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