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Subject: Re: Piece Values in Chess Programs (Larry Kaufman)

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 15:18:30 05/05/01

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On May 05, 2001 at 15:02:00, Marc van Hal wrote:

>On May 05, 2001 at 12:42:49, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>I think that if a program will make or avoid a BN v RP trade because of the base
>>piece values, it must not have very going on in the way of positional weights.
>>
>>My "base" piece values are basically 1/3/3/5/9, or something close to that (I
>>don't want to dig through my source now), but I've diddled with the piece-square
>>tables and various positional bonuses so much that it doesn't usually make a
>>downright idiotic trade.
>>
>>bruce
>It was already Capablanca who said  that the knight should be rated as 3.12 and
>the bishop at 3.21
>
>Marc van Hal

He was either joking, drunk, or heavily into weird numbers.

bruce




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