I was wondering what is it that makes a Kraken so powerful, then.
That it attacks more squares than any other piece on the same board?
BTW, I now tried a few end-games with sWAAF vs B from this position:
where the unorthodox piece represents the sWAAF. The Bishop almost always loses. The only game I have seen it win was where black was so stupid to trade sWAAF for B + Pawn when it was several Pawns ahead already, leaving an unstoppable passer for the opponent that promoted first (to Queen). Because I was playing at fast TC, and it did not have the search depth to see the promotion. I suppose these kind of mishaps could be prevented by programming such a high value for the sWAAF that it would never consider trading it.
So it seems that despite its smaller average mobility the sWAAF is much stronger!
That it attacks more squares than any other piece on the same board?
BTW, I now tried a few end-games with sWAAF vs B from this position:
where the unorthodox piece represents the sWAAF. The Bishop almost always loses. The only game I have seen it win was where black was so stupid to trade sWAAF for B + Pawn when it was several Pawns ahead already, leaving an unstoppable passer for the opponent that promoted first (to Queen). Because I was playing at fast TC, and it did not have the search depth to see the promotion. I suppose these kind of mishaps could be prevented by programming such a high value for the sWAAF that it would never consider trading it.
So it seems that despite its smaller average mobility the sWAAF is much stronger!