Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 21:40:44 11/01/05
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On November 01, 2005 at 19:36:22, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On November 01, 2005 at 17:15:32, George Speight wrote:
>
>>
>>After reading the posts concerning the value of knights and bishops in an
>>endgame with queeen and bishop vs. queen and knight, It brought to mind an
>>interesting sidenote. Has nothing to do with such position, but interesting
>>nonetheless. There may have been others, I dont know. But Bobby Fischer is the
>>only person I was ever aware of that at the BEGINNING of a game gave bishops a
>>higher value than knights. Regards, George
>
>It's not at all unusual for chess programmers to give bishops a higher weight in
>the beginning of a game.
>
>In Beowulf, at the beginning of a game:
>/* parameter enum name def min max */
>{"bishop_score", person_bishop_score, 325, 275, 375}
>{"knight_score", person_knight_score, 320, 270, 370},
>
>A bishop is worth 5 more centipawns than a knight (default is 325 for bishop and
>320 for knight).
>
>Users are allowed to adjust the parameters between min and max.
Fischer Values: Q=9 R=5 B=3.25 N=3 P=1
Terry
P.S. I concur with Fischer on this matter, but outside of his chess and games,
not too damn much.
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