Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 05:27:46 11/02/05
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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
To give in particular the bishop pair a higher
value is a good idea. When searching in databases
you can statistically prove that the player with
the bishop pair will much more often win the game.
Regards
Kurt
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