Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Jan 30, 2017 06:03 PM UTC:
I tend to agree with Dutch world chess champion Euwe, who put a queen at worth 10 pawns (Q=R+B+P, or Q = 5.5 + 3.5 + 1 = 10). In that case, oddly enough, if George's value for a mann (3.6, if a queen =9) is correct, if a queen is supposed to be 10 then by ratio a mann would be put at 4 pawns. However, I'd have to check whether Lasker or Evans put a queen at 10 pawns to guess if they saw things this way.
George's is the sort of estimating method I've used for other pieces on occasion. One problem might be that it doesn't take into account that the mann is not a long-range piece (a reason why a colour-bound bishop is a match for a non-colour-bound knight; the latter also has a leaping ability to compensate for moving to less squares on average than a bishop). The disadvantage of being only short-range would show up even more on a larger board than 8x8.
I tend to agree with Dutch world chess champion Euwe, who put a queen at worth 10 pawns (Q=R+B+P, or Q = 5.5 + 3.5 + 1 = 10). In that case, oddly enough, if George's value for a mann (3.6, if a queen =9) is correct, if a queen is supposed to be 10 then by ratio a mann would be put at 4 pawns. However, I'd have to check whether Lasker or Evans put a queen at 10 pawns to guess if they saw things this way.
George's is the sort of estimating method I've used for other pieces on occasion. One problem might be that it doesn't take into account that the mann is not a long-range piece (a reason why a colour-bound bishop is a match for a non-colour-bound knight; the latter also has a leaping ability to compensate for moving to less squares on average than a bishop). The disadvantage of being only short-range would show up even more on a larger board than 8x8.