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H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, May 3, 2008 04:21 PM UTC:

Oh Yes, I forgot about:

[name removed] (5)

5) Based on safe checking

I am not sure that safe checking is of any relevance. Most games are not
won by checkmating the opponent King in an equal-material position, but
by
annihilating the opponent's forces. So mainly by threatening Pawns and
other Pieces, not Kings. A problem is that safe checking seems to predict
zero value for pieces like Ferz, Wazir and Commoner, while the latter is
not that much weaker than the Knight. (And, averaged over all game
stages,
might even be stronger than a Knight.) This directly seems to falsify the
method.

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