Derek Nalls wrote on Wed, Apr 30, 2008 02:20 AM UTC:
A substantial revision and expansion has recently occurred.
universal calculation of piece values
http://www.symmetryperfect.com/shots/calc.pdf
66 pages
Only three games have relative piece values calculated using this complex
model: FRC, CRC and Hex Chess SS (my own invention). Furthermore, I only
confidently consider my figures somewhat reliable for two of these games, FRC (including Chess) and Capablanca Random Chess, because much work has been done by many talented individuals (hopefully, including myself) as well as computers to isolate reliable material values. This dovetails into the reason that I do not take requests. I have absolutely no assurance that the effort spent outside these two established testbeds is productive at all. If it is important to you to know the material values for the pieces within your favorite chess variant (according to this model), then you must calculate them yourself.
Under the recent changes to this model, the material values for FRC pieces
and Hex Chess SS pieces remained exactly the same. However, the material
values for a few CRC pieces changed significantly:
Capablanca Random Chess
material values for pieces
http://www.symmetryperfect.com/shots/values-capa.pdf
pawn 10.00
knight 30.77
bishop 37.56
rook 59.43
archbishop 93.95
chancellor 95.84
queen 103.05
Focused, intensive playtesting on my part has proven Muller to be correct
in his radical, new contention that the accurate material value of the
archbishop is extraordinarily, counter-intuitively high. I think I have
successfully discovered a theoretical basis which is now explained within
my 66-page paper.
All of the problems (that I am presently aware of) within my set of CRC
material values have now been solved. Some problems remain within
Muller's set. I leave it to him whether or not to maturely discuss them.
