These are exciting days for chess, as the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2024 is currently in full force. Have you ever wondered why the pieces in chess are valued the way they are? I sure have! So I used some maths to compute the true values of all chess pieces - let's see how close they get to what we know!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:48 - First attempts
04:12 - Maths ideas
06:58 - Results
09:23 - True values
11:00 - Outro