Derek Nalls wrote on Wed, May 21, 2008 04:53 PM UTC:
As I moved to renormalize all of the values used in Joker80 (written into
the 'winboard.ini' file) with the pawn at a par of 85 points, I looked
at my notes again. They reminded me that your use of the 'bishop pair'
refinement (with a bonus of 40 points) ramifies that the material value of
the rook is either 1.00 pawns or 1.47 pawns greater than the material value
of the bishop in CRC, depending upon whether or not only one bishop or both
bishops, respectively, remain in the game. At that point, I realized that
I would be attempting to playtest for a discrepancy that I know from
experience is just too small to detect even at very long time controls.
So, this planned test has been cancelled.
I am not implying that this matter is unimportant, though. I remain
concerned for the standard Muller model whenever it allows the exchange of
its 2 rooks for 1 queen belonging to its opponent.
