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Subject: Re: Piece values in Capablanca's / Gothic Chess

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 07:45:44 01/05/04

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On January 05, 2004 at 05:18:33, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>Hi Bob,
>
>>[...]
>>
>>My guess is that the tradeoff must between "getting at dynamic and positional
>>evaluations" by the two methods.  It would take some cost to do direct
>>evaluation of dynamic and positional factors and that cost is what should be
>>traded against the costs of the variable piece valuation approach.
>>
>>Agree?
>
>well, I think slowly thoughts an that theme will become speculative. So it would
>be up to practice to show whether something would be fruitful or futile.
>Evaluation - especialliy positional detail evaluation - still could be improved
>a lot, as I am convinced. But it seems still open, who would have the "golden"
>idea.
>
>Regards, Reinhard.

Perhaps we need a modern-day Botvinnik to get interested in design of chess
engines.  : )

Bob D.



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