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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 Thu, Jul 24, 2003 04:51 AM UTC:

'Part of the advantage of the augmented Knights over the Rook may be a
Zillions artifact--Knights are strongest in the opening, Rooks in the
endgame. Zillions sometimes has trouble getting to an endgame, where
human
masters would'

I seem to recall having written a short piece on the relationship between
opening values, endgame values, and the strength of the players, that is,
why the
Blackmar_Diemer Gambit is winning between 1800 players and losing between
GMs.

Opening advantages favor normal humans, endgame advantages favor GMs, in
both cases because of the precision of play required to overcome an
opening advantage and then profit from the endgame advantage. Exceptions:
Tal, RJF.