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Jeremy Lennert wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 12:16 AM UTC:
I thought the Rook measurement was off by at least half a pawn, but perhaps my memory is in error.

In any case, we have:

- (Commoner) One situation where your empirical measurement differs from common wisdom, and you think it is probably due to a failure of your engine;

- (Rook) One situation where your empirical measurement differs from common wisdom, but you think it's a failure of definition and you weren't really measuring the same thing;

- (Bishop-Knight) One situation where there's a strong possibility that your empirical tests have shone light on an important lesson for theorists, but we still don't know WHY this particular piece would have such a high value, so we can't extrapolate from it (for example, we can't make reliable guesses about the value of a Bishop-Camel or a Bishop-Nightrider)

I have great respect for your work and I think it's very valuable, but these still strike me as emblematic of how far we have yet to go.

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