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Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Derek Nalls wrote on Wed, Apr 5, 2006 02:34 AM UTC:
Thank you for publishing my results.  Doing so implies that you have some
trust in my calculation method even as it differs from your own and the
English-German language barrier creates apprehension.

We are all trying to reach the same destination (accurate relative piece
values).  We just have different reasons for taking different roads in
pursuit of it.  Unfortunately, the subject is just too complicated to be
approached exclusively from math and geometry as applied to games.  Where
value judgments are necessarily required (for instance, in determining the
details of a formula and what 'looks right' based only upon estimated
material values of pieces in well-established games that seem to work
well), philosophy becomes involved.  Thereafter, the dangerous line
between 'the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics' and 'the
unreasonable ineffectiveness of philosophy' (to quote Dr. Steven
Weinberg) is approached.

For what it is worth, your set of material values for pieces in CRC fall
into the safe, flat scale between the relatively compressed scale of Trice
and the relatively expanded scale of Nalls.  So, if there is anything at
all reliable within the work of any of the 3 of us, then your calculations
for pieces in CRC are either the most accurate or the 2nd most accurate.