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Simon, it's relatively easy to make a basic preset. Would you be interested in making one for Sovereign Chess? Here is a very simple guide, and I can give you any assistance you need to set up a non-rules-checking preset. 

 http://chessvariants.wikidot.com/preset-primer   EDIT

Joe

Well, I didn't say that it was wrong to have the K + N + lame D piece in there: even if it is worth slightly over a Queen, there is nothing against having 3 Queen-class pieces on a 10x10 board. (Capablanca has 3 Queen-class pieces on 10x8, and that is an OK variant...) Although having a piece capable of solo checkmating might not be good for a variant. (OTOH, Knightmate has that too, and does not really suffer from it.)

K+N should be 7.5-8, almost balancing a Rook + Knight in an end-game with otherwise only King and Pawns. At least it is on 8x8. On 10x10 it might lose some value, but so would the Knight, so it might still be a fair match for a Rook and a Knight.

I think you still don't get it. I am not talking about a single position, but about 228 million different ones. Namely all possible positions with this material.

Point is that if you hav King + Rook + Knight, and I have King + Ganesha, I will almost certainly beat you, unless it happened to be your move and my Ganesha happened to be hanging,or it is my move and you happened to have a fork or skewer on my King + Ganesha. In other words, if the Ganesha is trivially lost tactically, so that this is not really a K+G vs K+R+N ending at all.

But in a tactically quiet position, the Ganesha almost always wins. That is not bad for a single piece, to defeat Rook + Knight with overwhelming superiority. A Queen cannot do that, for example.

How about this then:

K+G vs K+R+N on 8x8 is 95% won with white (= the side with G) to move. With black to move still 35% of all positions is won. (There are many positions where black can capture your G or K on the first move, after which you cannot win anymore. K+R+N on the average cover 6.6+5.25+14 ~ 25 squares or 35% of the board, and either your K or G might be in their line of fire, explaining the bulk of the other 65% positions.)

I cannot exclude there are some fortress draws.

Do you think 5 is a good value for a piece that almost always slaughters a Rook + Knight in the end-game?

lame D = D that cannot jump.

K+G vs K+R is a generally-won end-game on 8x8. I am pretty sure it is the same on 10x10, and that it does not matter much if Pawns are present. (Provided, of course, they are not very close to promotion).

The reason is that Ganesha can checkmate (forcing it, so not just help mates like Archbishop) without the aid of its King on any size board (or in fact on a quarter-infinite board). It might take some time before it gets close enough to the opponent King to give the first check, but once it does, you are toast...

And a Rook can not give perpetuals like a Queen can: when it tries you approach until you attack it diagonally, and then it has to move without checking, and the Ganesha gets one step closer to the opponent King. (Well, two steps, more likely! ;-) )

I have no idea what 'any squares a Knight usually passes through' means. Being a leaper, a Knight does not pass through any square, but teleports directly to its final destination.

If you have a path in mind through which a Knight reaches its desitination, you should specify the path, as this is not standard. Does a Knight move in an L shape, and if so, does the long leg or short leg of the L come first? Or does it move like the Mao or Moa? Or is it a multipath Moo? Or does it move 3 forward and then back diagonally?

Also the phrase 'can only jump if it moves like a Knight'  is ambiguous. Does it mean the piece is a hopper?