George Duke wrote on Thu, Jul 26, 2007 03:28 PM UTC:
I have not read Joe Joyce's Comment yet, brief though it may be. What
Falcon Chess has to do with the piece-values Comments made escapes me. I
say to Derek Nalls simply that I am willing to determine piece values for games in question, one or more of Joyce's, by Game Design Analysis criteria I used 40 or 60 times years 2004-2005. Those analyses still appear in Comments under each CV being considered. Because of complexity and some need for intuition, I am sceptical of a computer algorithm's determination of piece values, especially without a large database of games played, doing as well as humans, for foreseeable future--because number CV variables are infinite. The proof Nalls' 50-page program is comparatively inadequate is that he will not likewise use it for such estimatations on command. Since his system is only good for three sets now(FRC,CRC and the one of his own), it apparently does not even achieve hit-or-miss or willynilly import.