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Subject: Re: Material Values

Author: martin fierz

Date: 12:38:45 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.
in the middlegame, yes, in the endgame no.

>2 knights/bishops for rook and pawn is almost always a bad idea.
in the middlegame yes, in the endgame, maybe not, if the rook has a passer.

>2 rooks for queen is often not a good idea.
not at all, except if the queen can mate you.

>3 knights/bishops for a queens is often not a good idea. Then again, often it is
>:)
it is a good idea more often than not.

all these things are heavily dependent on the rest of the material on the board.
i don't think you have a chance...

cheers

  martin



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