Master the Chessboard: A Guide to Evaluating Pawns and Bishops
The Future of pawns or bishops: What’s Next? The future of chess, and particularly the relative value of pawns and bishops, is a subject of intense speculation among grandmasters and analysts. Some believe that as computers play an ever-larger role in the game, the value of pawns will diminish, while the value of bishops will increase. This is because computers are better at calculating the long-term value of pieces, and they often prefer bishops over pawns in endgames....