💡📝Joe Joyce wrote on Thu, Feb 2, 2017 05:44 AM UTC:
Piece values. Something I was always terrible at. Experience with Hype will let me argue some qualitative values. Pawns can move to 6 squares max, min 4, 7 - 6 on the initial move Rooks always move to 12. I'd argue rooks are worth roughly twice what pawns are. Bishops (B+W) are 18 max, 10 min, and 2 can mate, with king. Queens are 22 max, 16 min, and 2 can mate, with king. Or Q + B + K can mate. Rooks and knights don't have the proper footprint to force mate from anywhere on an open board. Knights, however, have a rather amazing mobility on a 4x4x4x4 board. The N has a min if 12 squares, and a max of 24 squares, and can deliver some nasty forks. I see it as clearly more valuable than a bishop, and while its minimum is less than the queen's, is maximum is greater. I'd put it closer to the queen than to the bishop in value, and it must certainly be considered a major piece despite not being able to force mate with a pair.
Piece values. Something I was always terrible at. Experience with Hype will let me argue some qualitative values. Pawns can move to 6 squares max, min 4, 7 - 6 on the initial move Rooks always move to 12. I'd argue rooks are worth roughly twice what pawns are. Bishops (B+W) are 18 max, 10 min, and 2 can mate, with king. Queens are 22 max, 16 min, and 2 can mate, with king. Or Q + B + K can mate. Rooks and knights don't have the proper footprint to force mate from anywhere on an open board. Knights, however, have a rather amazing mobility on a 4x4x4x4 board. The N has a min if 12 squares, and a max of 24 squares, and can deliver some nasty forks. I see it as clearly more valuable than a bishop, and while its minimum is less than the queen's, is maximum is greater. I'd put it closer to the queen than to the bishop in value, and it must certainly be considered a major piece despite not being able to force mate with a pair.