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Subject: Re: Komputer Korner Tip of the Week No. 63

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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