In article , Neil Fernandez
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In article ,
Neil Fernandez wrote:

In article , Neil Fernandez
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I hacked the non-variant chess program
published by Zillions for their gaming system
(http://www.zillions-of-games.com) by turning all four bishops
into crowned bishops. I then used the facility of that program to
estimate the point-value of each piece. For example, at the
starting position it gives the pawn on a2 a value of 1853 points,
and the pawn on e2 a value of 1867. There is little variation for
pieces of the same type. Taking the mean for crowned bishops and
dividing by the mean for pawns gave a figure of 4.6, and taking the
mean for rooks and dividing by the mean for pawns gave a figure of
4.9.

Oops - I typed this the wrong way round. The program gives 4.6 for the
rook and 4.9 for the crowned bishop.

Neil

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Neil Fernandez