'If you think the piece is worth a Bishop, you will trade it for a Bishop; and in that game, it will only have been worth that much. This is why playtesting without the theory of piece values could never succeed in establishing values well enough to make chess armies that were equal in strength, yet different. (And when I realized in 1976 that playtesting alone, would not do the job, I set out to create the theory!)' - Ralph Betza, in Revisiting the Crooked Bishop
Rose Chess XII is almost complete - not sure if low piece density on a 12x12 board still qualifies as a Large Variant these days :>) My theories on piece values (and how they change as the boards get larger) are part of the background to Rose Chess XII, so it would be reasonable to include a few explanatory paragraphs on the game page. Not sure if I can come up with precise values for the Rose and Bison, however.
Those who prefer their Bisons broken down into Camels and Zebras can check out Samarcanda
and its newly posted preset. The Noblemen in this game move like Crooked Bishops.
'If you think the piece is worth a Bishop, you will trade it for a Bishop; and in that game, it will only have been worth that much. This is why playtesting without the theory of piece values could never succeed in establishing values well enough to make chess armies that were equal in strength, yet different. (And when I realized in 1976 that playtesting alone, would not do the job, I set out to create the theory!)' - Ralph Betza, in Revisiting the Crooked Bishop
Rose Chess XII is almost complete - not sure if low piece density on a 12x12 board still qualifies as a Large Variant these days :>) My theories on piece values (and how they change as the boards get larger) are part of the background to Rose Chess XII, so it would be reasonable to include a few explanatory paragraphs on the game page. Not sure if I can come up with precise values for the Rose and Bison, however.
Those who prefer their Bisons broken down into Camels and Zebras can check out Samarcanda and its newly posted preset. The Noblemen in this game move like Crooked Bishops.