Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 23:15:55 05/30/98
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On May 30, 1998 at 05:03:19, Mark Taylor wrote: >When I last went to a chess club regularly (admittedly many years ago!), >the rule of thumb for piece values was: > >Pawn 1 >Knight 3 >Bishop 3.5 >Rook 4.5 >Queen 8.5 > >Which gives much closer scores of 2R+N = 12 and R+2B = 11.5 I haven't seen these point counts before, but they look fairly reasonable. I guess we need tests in different engines where you can change the point counts to see which point count comes out ahead. Which programs let the user change the point count and allow engine vs engine? Is CM5000/5500 the only one?
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