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Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Kevin Pacey wrote on Fri, Oct 5, 2018 05:37 PM UTC:

Below is a sub-wiki that quotes many valuations for the chess piece types; I'm wondering why Kaufman in a book of his published in 2011 apparently changed his valuations to make them nearly identical to what the Dutch world chess champion Euwe gave them (notably single N=B=3.5 and Q=10, though unlike Euwe he has R=5.25 instead of 5.5), which is about what I'd use (I'd put a N at e.g. 3.49, as if to be 'precise', and use Euwe's R=5.5):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_piece_relative_value#Alternative_valuations