I'll agree using 2700+ level play for studies is impractical at this time. Earlier I almost did tell you to re-check something you posted saying my implying that 2700+ level play being different from 2300+ level play meant that I'd thought there were no absolute piece values - yet you're going right ahead yourself and saying 2700+ play is different (besides impractical to use for studies). I thought you'd just had some sort of an automatic reaction to try and say everything I write is wrong, and that you wrote inconsistently in place(s) unknowingly. I do not know if you were still trying to be fair. In any case, I get your overall drift, certainly as of this last post of yours.
One person who earlier wrote somewhere that 'the person with the hand that holds the piece' affects it's value was Betza, if you wish to argue with that, too. I personally believe the true piece values (for average case) should be absolute (however I think we might never be able to know them for sure). I still had a couple of other things about studies that I thought were suspect (margins of error, initial setup/armies chosen, as I wrote a bit earlier) that you didn't address, but I now recall we discussed those long ago here on CVP - it's just that I never was fully convinced.
I'll agree using 2700+ level play for studies is impractical at this time. Earlier I almost did tell you to re-check something you posted saying my implying that 2700+ level play being different from 2300+ level play meant that I'd thought there were no absolute piece values - yet you're going right ahead yourself and saying 2700+ play is different (besides impractical to use for studies). I thought you'd just had some sort of an automatic reaction to try and say everything I write is wrong, and that you wrote inconsistently in place(s) unknowingly. I do not know if you were still trying to be fair. In any case, I get your overall drift, certainly as of this last post of yours.
One person who earlier wrote somewhere that 'the person with the hand that holds the piece' affects it's value was Betza, if you wish to argue with that, too. I personally believe the true piece values (for average case) should be absolute (however I think we might never be able to know them for sure). I still had a couple of other things about studies that I thought were suspect (margins of error, initial setup/armies chosen, as I wrote a bit earlier) that you didn't address, but I now recall we discussed those long ago here on CVP - it's just that I never was fully convinced.