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Subject: Re: Piece Values

Author: Larry Oliver

Date: 05:47:23 08/16/98

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Most programs seem to use the old standard pawn=1, knight=3, etc, method. This
was always stated in the beginner books to be a "rule of thumb" based on
practical play. Never seemed very scientific to me. Has anyone ever tried to
optimize these values using scientific methods?



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