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Subject: Re: Engines valutation question

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 03:24:12 08/03/04

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On August 03, 2004 at 05:48:15, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>On August 03, 2004 at 04:54:11, morphy wrote:
>
>>Why the valutation is always referred to the material advantage (where a pawn in
>>more is the unit) and we can't have a valutation in tems of percentage of
>>probability for winning and drawing?
>
>Maybe you find some answers at R. Scharnagl's SMIRF sites:
>
>http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachwert1_e.html
>and following.

At this site, there is listing of piece valuations by C. Posthoff:

Pawn    1.00
Knight  3.00
Bishop  3.00
King   (100)
Rook    5.00
Queen   9.00

Now it is possible for one side to have:

9 Queens  9x9.00 =  81.00
2 Rooks   2x5.00 =  10.00
2 Bishops 2x3.00 =   6.00
2 Knights 2x3.00 =   6.00
           Total = 103.00

Which means all these units are worth more than a King!  :)

The practical importance of this is negligible, but in theory, the King ought be
worth more than 103.00 I would think.



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