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Chess

Table 3 lists material values determined by METAGAMER for the game of chess, given only an encoding of the rules similar to that for checkers [\protect\citenamePell, 1993b]. In the table, the names of the pieces are just the first letters of the standard piece names, except that refers to a knight.

As discussed for checkers above, pawns are here undervalued because METAGAMER does not consider their potential to promote into queens, rooks, bishops, or knights. According to its present analysis, a pawn has increasingly less eventual-mobility as it gets closer to the promotion rank. Beyond this, the relative value of the pieces is surprisingly close to the values used in conventional chess programs, given that the analysis was so simplistic.