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Subject: Re: Material Values

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 06:29:24 01/20/02

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On January 20, 2002 at 09:01:50, David Rasmussen wrote:

>There must be a value system of material that takes care of all special cases.
>
>1,3,3,5,9:
>
>Has the following problems:
>3 pawns for bishop or knight is almost always a bad idea.
>2 knights/bishops for rook and pawn is almost always a bad idea.
>2 rooks for queen is often not a good idea.
>3 knights/bishops for a queens is often not a good idea. Then again, often it is
>:)
>
>What is your best bet?

And sometimes a Bishop is better than a knight. So:

P=1, B>N>3*P, R+P>2*B, Q>2*R and Q>3*B.

So maybe P=1, N=3.2, B=3.4, R=6, Q=13?

Severi



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