There's a common scoring system that is often used to help children who are learning to play chess (pawn is 1, knight and bishop are 3, etc).
A pure minimax engine isn't that hard to beat because the engine will be basically playing random moves during the opening phase. An opening repertoire + minimax on a modern computer will beat casual players (probably 1700-1900 Elo if I had to guess). You also have to do some good time management.
A pure minimax engine isn't that hard to beat because the engine will be basically playing random moves during the opening phase. An opening repertoire + minimax on a modern computer will beat casual players (probably 1700-1900 Elo if I had to guess). You also have to do some good time management.