Author: Ryan B.
Date: 22:24:05 11/01/05
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On November 02, 2005 at 00:40:44, Terry McCracken wrote:
>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.
As much as I respect Fischers chess game I do not agree with his value system.
As always it depends on the situation but this gives a good base.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisman/Articles/evaluation_of_material_imbalance.htm
Ryan
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