About the Values of Chess Pieces -- Contents

About the Values of Chess Pieces -- Contents

This will be about as long as a book, if it ever is finished.

About the Author
Introduction
Early Attempts at Deriving These Values
A Better Way to Calculate Mobility
Life Is Not That Simple
Mobility, Forwardness, Distance, Colorboundness, Capture
Getting More Data
Impossible by Definition
Summary of Part 1

Part 2: A Pawn is as Strong as the Hand that Holds It
References
Thought Experiment
Personal Variations

Part 3: Point Count Chess
Point Count Chess
Quantum of Advantage

Part 4: Advantage, Material, Strength
Gradations of Advantage
Pawn and Move
In Bad Positions there are no Good Moves
Why an advantage affects the winning rate
Why ELO ratings affect the winning rate
Some research could be done

Part 5: Present Value versus Endgame Value
Before the Endgame
CCCC Chess
FIDE Chess
Measuring Values at Different Stages
Playing the Role
Endgame advantage in play

Part 6: Knights and Bishops
Shock Troops
Very Different
Where the Knights and Bishops Begin
Where the Fafnrds and Mooses Begin
It Ends Here Now For Now.

Part 7: New Ideas in Calculating Values
Factors that Contribute to Piece Values
Mobility
Sociability
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Restrictions on Being Captured

Digression: Second Thoughts
Is Mobility Linear?
What About Pinning Power?
Consistent Inconsistencies
Random Ain't Chess

Part 7: New Ideas in Calculating Values (continued)
Jump or Walk or Hop or Run or Step

Later Work: Ideal and Practical Values
Ideal and Practical Values (part 1)
Ideal and Practical Values (part 2): Atomic Pieces and Subatomic Movements
Ideal and Practical Values (part 3): The Rider Problem
Ideal and Practical Values (part 4): Odds and Ends
Ideal and Practical Values (part 5): Modified Jumpers
Ideal and Practical Values (part 6): A Case Study in Piece Values

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