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Sac Chess. Game with 60 pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2015 12:41 AM UTC:
It's a fair point to say that the Queen combines the powers of a Rook and both Bishops. But this might not make your case, because the lesser value of a Queen to a Rook + two Bishops might be due to the effect of diminishing returns when you start to combine more than two pieces or to the similarity of one Bishop's move to the other. To make your case, the Marshall is the most unambiguous example. It combines the powers of a Rook and Knight, neither of which were originally colorbound, and neither of which have moves similar to the other. In some tests I just ran on Zillions-of-Games, I had one side use a Marshall in place of its Rook and Bishop. I ran two tests so that each side could use the Marshall in place of its Rook and Bishop, and in each test, the side with the Marshall won.