M Winther wrote on Thu, Apr 27, 2006 06:01 PM UTC:
I made a test where I put an Archbishop + King versus Mammoth + King on
an otherwise empty board in Zillions. On an 8x8 board Zillions evaluates
Archbishop and Mammoth as equal. But on an 8x10 board Zillions evaluates
the Archbishop as significantly stronger than the Mammoth (so that the
smiley looks unhappy when making the Mammoth move). On a 10x10 board
the difference increases yet more in the Archbishop's favour, but not that
much. So Zillions thinks that the Mammoth has about the value of an
Archbishop on an *empty* 8x8 board, but this evaluation changes when the
board is bigger. This corroborates what has been said recently, although
I'm unable to interpret Zillions' numbers.