George Duke wrote on Sat, Sep 17, 2016 07:47 PM UTC:
For other newcomers than Florea, here are Gryphon and Aanca whose values Muller and Aurelian Florea have pinpointed through fascinating Fairy-Max discussion. It makes sense to player that preferred-emphasis-orthogonal Gryphon edges out Aanca. But are not G. and A. better implemented on 10x10 or even up to 12x12? Then on large boards they might equal Queen. In any case on 8x8 and 8x10 Gryphon and Aanca are higher value than 5.0-range Rook and Falcon. Of the four fundamental Chess pieces Bishop and Knight as 3.0 and Rook and Falcon as 5.0 are pairwise very close in values given the standard boards 8-deep and reasonably popular piece mixes. Betza had just become aware of Falcon when writing up "Bent Riders" in 2002, and Falcon's changing direction has the B.R. piece genre's mode but that move just beyond Knight of Falcon is better described as fixed-length plural-path.
The Florea-Muller exchanges on Fairy-Max are reminiscent of those of Reinhard Schamagl (Capablanca Random) ten years ago on Carrera-Capa RN and BN.
For other newcomers than Florea, here are Gryphon and Aanca whose values Muller and Aurelian Florea have pinpointed through fascinating Fairy-Max discussion. It makes sense to player that preferred-emphasis-orthogonal Gryphon edges out Aanca. But are not G. and A. better implemented on 10x10 or even up to 12x12? Then on large boards they might equal Queen. In any case on 8x8 and 8x10 Gryphon and Aanca are higher value than 5.0-range Rook and Falcon. Of the four fundamental Chess pieces Bishop and Knight as 3.0 and Rook and Falcon as 5.0 are pairwise very close in values given the standard boards 8-deep and reasonably popular piece mixes. Betza had just become aware of Falcon when writing up "Bent Riders" in 2002, and Falcon's changing direction has the B.R. piece genre's mode but that move just beyond Knight of Falcon is better described as fixed-length plural-path.
The Florea-Muller exchanges on Fairy-Max are reminiscent of those of Reinhard Schamagl (Capablanca Random) ten years ago on Carrera-Capa RN and BN.