Interesting article about the value of the pieces

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Interesting article about the value of the pieces

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http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7775

I wonder how do programmers assign those values in their programs...
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Re: Interesting article about the value of the pieces

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Ponti wrote:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7775

I wonder how do programmers assign those values in their programs...
I put in the values from Kaufman's article and the scaling relations he gives, with tweaks where it seemed to make sense to me.

In principle these can then be refined like any other evaluation parameter by tuning.
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Ponti wrote:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7775

I wonder how do programmers assign those values in their programs...
Automatic parameter tuning