Author: Amir Ban
Date: 13:35:53 05/31/98
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On May 31, 1998 at 02:15:55, Komputer Korner wrote: >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? I think the bishop's grossly overvalued here. I would love to play against a program with this piece-value evaluation. Amir
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