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Subject: Re: Material vs Positional Assessments

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 16:24:54 01/08/01

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On January 08, 2001 at 15:19:46, Jay Scott wrote:

>On January 07, 2001 at 20:57:46, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>My question is: Do any programs take this into account or do they all consider
>>the 2nd pawn they grab to be as valuable as the 1st?
>
>I think that programs which take this into account do it by scaling the
>positional score rather than the material score. By tradition, the value
>of a pawn is constant.
>
<snip>
I believe you are wrong. By tradition the value of the pieces are not a
constant, and the value of pawns increases as it approaches the queening square.
 How much value would a pawn be on the 7th rank compared to one at the 2nd rank?
 The value between these two pawns are not the same.
Regards,
Laurence



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