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Aberg variation of Capablanca's Chess. Different setup and castling rules. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hans Aberg wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 09:20 PM UTC:
Me:
| By experience, certain generic types of endgames will empirically 
| classified by this system. Those that aspiring becoming GMs study 
| hard to refine it, so that exceptions are covered. Once learned, 
| it can be used to instantly evaluate a position.
Someone:
| What do you mean by this? The result of end-games is not determinedby
| the material present. There are KRKBPP end games that are won for the
| Rook, and that are won for the Bishop. Similar for KRKBP and KRKBPPP.
| So how would you derive a piece-value system of this?

It hangs on the word 'generic', meaning some general empiric cases. Then the cases you cover would be special cases studied separately as a refinement. These are excepted when defining the piece value system.