Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Oct 13, 2009 10:20 AM UTC:>Sam Trenholme: (on the Ajax Bishop) > >>I really like the bishop + non-capturing Wazir piece; it nicely solves >>all of the headaches one has coming up with a board setup for colorbound >>pieces. Actually I tested such pieces once, to figure out how much of a handicap color-boundedness actually is. To my surprise the extra non-captures are not worth that much, at least when you play the piece in pairs. I tried augmented Bishops with 1, 2, and 4 Wazir (non-capture) moves, and it seemed each move added about 15 cP to the piece. The fact that this was nearly additive suggested that it was due more to tactical mobility than breaking the color-boundedness (for which a single move would already have been sufficient). This was further corroborated that adding Wazir non-captures to a Knight, which does not suffer from color-boundedness, caused a nearly identical value increase. I guees the most important thing is that the pair bonus becomes incorporated in the basic piece value, which is something you would not notice when you play them in pairs. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Pieces does not match any item.
