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Including Piece Values on Rules Pages[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Mar 9 06:34 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:12 PM:

By more knowledgeable (than me), I mean someone who might have better qualifications for evaluating the sorts of computer studies done both by yourself and Kaufman (his is, naturally, a different type of computer study, if I may call it that). That is, someone who is a mathematician and/or a chess grandmaster, neither of which I am. Even then, Kaufman may qualify, especially if he is the former besides being a GM - however other people with equally good qualifications may disagree. A body of such people, who are known to be interested/paid (to make the evaluations of the studies/results), really, would be needed to build a consensus. I've read online somewhere long ago that some GM tried to explain the result Kaufman got, maybe unconvincingly.

Most of my calculations for estimating piece values are quite short and simple, even if highly suspect to at least some readers. An article on my assortment of quick and dirty methods of calculation (that try to presently provide for a big range of pieces and board sizes/shapes) would not cover all the piece types that are possible, I suppose, and also I have never done a CVP article/item of that sort (perhaps you could for your computer studies method, too, if it would not be too lengthy).