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Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Jan 27 10:31 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 09:30 PM:

Well, I mean to give my estimated piece values normally for single cases of a given piece type - having two bishops that run on opposite colours is on average thought (including by me, though I rarely bother to state it) to be worthy of a pair bonus, for example. In the case of multiple guards, such as in some of Joe Joyce's CVs, there is strength in their numbers, and thus having a whole gang of guards should be worthy of some type of bonus, I'd think.

I've never thought about whether having multiple healthy pawns on a wing is worthy of a bonus, though. Distinguishing whether values are meant for endgames or prior stage(s) of a game could be important at times (if not complicating life too much for a novice), and I again seldom bother to do so, as I'm more interested in average cases, to ease the life of even a novice.

I edited my previous post that you replied to, adding in a diagram for a look at some champion and knight paths, to illustrate better what I was getting at (maybe unfairly to the champion type, you'd say with some emphasis).


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