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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