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Thanks David. I wasn't aware of White Elephant Chess or the Great Elephants. I stand corrected I my evaluation of the strenght of the Silver Elephant. I based my statement more on my short experience playing with the Silver Elephant and the Bishop on the same board, than empirically. While the feeling from my short experience playing the Silver Elephant was that they were both similar in value. Mathematically, these are my value estimates on a 10x10 board: Bishop 3 Rook 10.5 Queen 16 Knight 5 Silver Elephant 4 What I was surpise to find out was that the Silver elephant was weaker to the Knight.
'Silver Elephants are leapers that can reach all squares on the board and can also be very nice and useful short-range attacking pieces. They are similar in value to the long-range color-bound Bishops and stronger than the leaping Knights.'
In Peter Aronson's White Elephant Chess this piece is called a Great Elephant. I would value this shortrange piece halfway between a Bishop and a Rook on a 10x10 board.
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