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Examples of Material Analysis

One important aspect of METAGAMER's game analysis, which was discussed in Section 2.4, is concerned with determining relative values for each type of piece in a given game. This type of analysis is called material analysis, and the resulting values are called material values or static piece values. This section illustrates the results of METAGAMER's material analysis when applied to chess and checkers. In both cases, METAGAMER took as input only the rules of the games.

In conducting this material analysis, METAGAMER used the material advisors shown in Table 1, all with equal weight of one point each.

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