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Ideal Values and Practical Values (part 3). More on the value of Chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

gnohmon wrote on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 08:02 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

'Archangel is Gryphon plus Bishop'. If your numbers do not show it as
supeirior to Q, mustn't that be an eror in the numbers?

FAND is a special case. This piece not only 'can mate', it can mate all
by itself by force in an open position. Its shortness is compensated by
its excssive ability to mate. Today's primitive science of value
calculation inevitably underestimates this piece. 

I developed the concept of theoretical values so that I could simply
describe this piece as being worth 5 atoms, same as the Queen. Now you've
found a calculation that gives this same result. This is a huge
accomplishment!, if the calc holds up for other pieces. (Looks like it
does, so far, I think?) 

A reliable calculation for the theoretical value would make it possible to
spend much more effort on attempts to calculate practical values.