Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Piece Values in the Endgame

Author: martin fierz

Date: 00:21:53 02/12/04

Go up one level in this thread


On February 11, 2004 at 21:25:17, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On February 11, 2004 at 17:16:00, GuyHaworth wrote:
>
>>
>>When I was taught chess, pre-history now, the piece values were:
>>
>>Pawn = 1 (without loss of generality)
>>Bishop = Knight = 3
>>Rook = 5
>>Queen = 10.
>>
>>These figures may not be 'current thinking' so feel free to correct me there.
>>
>>
>>However, my question is this.  If piece-values are assumed to be dependent only
>>on the force on the board, what values should they be given for various forces
>>in the endgame?
>>
>>
>>g
>
>You won't find much discussion on eval at CCC.  There are essentially 4 types of
>people here:
>
>commercials: don't discuss eval because they value their jobs
>amateurs: don't know anything about eval
>chess players: have the knowledge, but don't know how to implement it
>morons: why would you listen to them anyway
>
>anthony

hi anthony,

why don't we just close down CCC then? ;-)

cheers
  martin



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.