Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 02:27:10 01/26/02
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On January 21, 2002 at 17:05:59, Russell Reagan wrote:
>On January 21, 2002 at 06:19:56, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>Is the Bishop pair a special case? Theyb are better in about 80-90% of all
>>practical games.I think that should score 7p together if a bishp is 3.
>>
>>And perhaps even a score for Queen and Knight that work very well together....
>>
>>But I guess this is "special case"
>>
>>Torstein
>
>Heh, I heard the exact opposite. I heard the bishop pair is one of those old
>mythical positional factors that isn't really an applicable advantage in
>practical play.
No, B+B is statistically better than B+N and N+N. Same with B vs N. Some
people think that B and N are equivalent materially ("it all depends on the
posiition!"). Well, that's true, but there's simply more positions that favour
the bishop, so treating assigning B a slightly higher value than N seems better
to me.
Dave
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