Practical Evaluation

It's time to wrap up this series on 'Engine Evaluation' and 'Material Imbalances'. Here are the posts to date:-

• 2012-12-13: Engine Evaluation
• 2013-01-15: Kaufman's Material Imbalances • Kaufman 1999
• 2013-01-22: Notes on Material Imbalances
• 2013-01-29: Soltis on Kaufman's Material Imbalances
• 2013-02-07: One Imbalance Leads to Another • Kaufman 2003
• 2013-02-14: Piece Values Are Relative • Soltis on Spielmann
• 2013-02-19: A Pawn Equals 200 Rating Points

For more on 'Engine Evaluation', see Evaluation on chessprogramming.wikispaces.com; a site search on 'evaluation' also yields many other useful pages. In several games I've already used the knowledge acquired -- especially with regard to a more accurate evaluation of Rook vs. minor piece exchanges -- and am certain that my understanding of chess has deepened noticeably.