Chess pieces' values

engine tournament with Raubfisch changed pieces value versus default pieces value

engine tournament from Caro_Kann opening Deep blue versus Kasparov

Okay.......

What are the others thinking about the pieces' values?

no? cuz professionals will do it and people like you don't have to.

That is a good point.

I just wonder how did the orgin of chess pieces' values happen?

Did you know that the queen before was like a wazir and had 1 point value?

And the rook was the strongest piece in chess at that time!

idk it just needed to be cuz calculation and stuff

There are two kinds of piece value: Absolute Value and Relative Value.

Absolute Value is the estimated average value of a piece from all theoretically possible chess games that could be played. For the human perspective, these are the "rule of thumb" values estimated that can be used when trading.

Relative Value is the estimated true value of a piece from a single configuration of pieces in a board. For the human perspective, these are the assessed strengths of each pieces that can be used specially for deciding gameplay.

Example:

In one of my game that I played English Opening.

Absolute Value: Enemy Rook worth 5 points and White Light Color Bishop worth 3 points.

Relative Value: Enemy Rook is 5 points and White Light Color Bishop worth more than 5 points.

P.S. I forgot the game but I am shocked when the engine said that I should not trade my Light Square Bishop for an enemy Rook. My only guess is my Bishop controls a lot of key squares than the Rook that is pretty much passive.

If the bishop is a very valuable one to you in the game, I advise you to not try to trade it for more material advantage.

Unless, the opponent has a strong rook or a queen.

test the tournament of the best engines from 2024. and 2025. year in variant of the Pirc-Ufimtsev Defense 1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. d5 Ne5 which the last available public version of CorChess to knowing how the values ​​of pieces can vary in different openings

In that video you can notice that I presented the calculation of the value of the pieces but I couldn't calculate the exact value due to the value limitation , but my presentation can show authors to set as accurately as possible

Depends on the pawn structure. In a closed position knights are better while in open positions bishops are better. Trade accordingly.

If you make a tournament of the best chess programs with the ending of king and knight against king and two bishop , you can notice that it barely manages to draw , but often the knight loses to the two bishop, while the endings that draw are king and bishop against king and two knights or king and two bishops or king and knight and bishop .

A king and two bishops defeat king , as a king and bishop and knight defeat a king .

The endgame of a king and two knights against a king is a draw, although a win is possible if weaker side make a mistake of moves , while a king and two knights against a king and a pawn is mostly won by the stronger side , but can often be a draw depending on where the pawn is

An gambit opening in which the white pieces try to take advantage of the bishop pair is 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3 dxc3 5. Bc4 cxb2 6. Bxb2 or Danish Gambit

In blitz chess, the game with horses takes time from the opposing player due to the non-linear movement , so many players play actively with horses in order to gain time .

How Magnus Carlsen plays against a player active with knights

A pawns value should increase as it advances towards promotion the other pieces stay the same

Probably artificial intelligence will solve it . Otherwise , chess programs have a different setting of pieces in the middle game than in the end game , so in the endgame a pawns are worth more than in the middle game

people like us wouldn't need to do that

Probably or probably not