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Checkers

Table 2 lists material values determined by METAGAMER for the game of checkers, given only the encoding of the rules as presented in Figure 3. In the table, stands for , and stands for .

METAGAMER concludes that a king is worth almost two men. According to expert knowledge, this is a gross underestimate of the value of a man. The reason that men are undervalued here is that METAGAMER does not yet consider the static value of a piece based on its possibility to promote into other pieces (see Section 2.4). When actually playing a game, METAGAMER does take this into consideration, based on the dynamic promote-distance advisor.