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Subject: Re: Material Values

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 06:55:27 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?
>
>/David

P   100
N   392
B   424
R   620
Q   1260

This wasn't a plan, just sort of changed over time.  I actually haven't looked
at these in awhile, but it's always an interesting question.  Somebody ought to
come up with a test suite designed to test the various situations you mentioned,
for static analysis.  Mine looks like it would fail the 2 minors for the
rook/pawn.

Will



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