Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 03:42:22 08/03/04
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On August 03, 2004 at 06:24:12, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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. Infinite! Since the king is not exchangeable that doesn't matter, or? I use only one centi pawn as king material value to avoid some divisions by zero ;-)
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