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Aberg variation of Capablanca's Chess. Different setup and castling rules. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Hans Aberg wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 05:47 PM UTC:

Me:
| As I said, the outcome is decided by the best playing from both sides. 
| So if one starts to play poorly in the face of a material advantage, 
| that is inviting a loss.
Someone:
| We still don't seem to connect. What gave you the impression I
| advocated to play poorly? Problem is that even with your best play, it
| might be a loss. And as it is an end leaf of your search tree, which
| is limited by the time control, you have no time to analyze it until
| checkmate, or in fact analyze it at all. You have to judge in under a
| second if you are prepared to take your chances in this position,

The original context was what how I think that the classical piece value system is constructed:

By experience, certain generic types of endgames will empirically classified by this system. Those that aspiring becoming GMs study hard to refine it, so that exceptions are covered. Once learned, it can be used to instantly evaluate a position.

This is then not a statistical system.