M Winther wrote on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 10:12 AM UTC:
Zillions always shows the current value of a piece if you right-click on it. It is easy to change the value by tweaking. Anyway, strategic piece values are problematic. The bishop pair, in closed positions, holds no advantage. A knight is often more valuable than a bishop in closed positions. A knight is regularly more valuable than a bishop in king + light piece endgames when all pawns are on the same wing. I doubt Zillions takes all this into consideration. This is Rybka stuff.
Together with Axiom, Zillions is quite powerful, although not very strong. Axiom is a universal game engine that works in conjunction with the Zillions of Games (ZoG) product. Specifically, Axiom consists of a ZoG plug-in DLL and a set of scripts written in the Axiom language. Similar to the way in which the ZoG 'zrf' language is based on the Lisp language, the Axiom language is based on the Forth language. Unlike ZoG, Axiom supports the ability for game developers to specify the AI and therefore it has certain capacities that Zillions lacks.
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/axiom-system/
/Mats