Piece values

Here some numbers about the piece values Atomystica uses. The program differs between Opening, Middlegame and Endgame.
The values are in centipawns.
Opening

Queen    575
Bishop   60
Knight   75
Rook     250
Pawn     100

Middlegame

Queen    575
Bishop   50
Knight   50
Rook     250
Pawn     100

Endgame

Queen    675
Bishop   50
Knight   50
Rook     250
Pawn     100

These are only the basic material values. In some endgames a rook gets a massiv malus to avoid senseless pawn sacrifices because a rook as more then two pawns more worth then a bishop in example. On the other hand a passed pawn can earn a lot of points by just stepping up the board.

As you can see the values of the minor pieces are very low. But we know, the wrong bishop is sometimes totally worthless, so thats the idea behind that. The base for that is also a document i linked in this “Atomic in science” blog entry.

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  1. Now the values change. So in a closed position knights are stronger than bishops, often stronger than rooks even. In half open-open positions bishops are stronger than knights but 2 bishops basically increase each others strength.

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