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Enep. An experimental variant with enhanced knights and an extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Sep 1, 2016 07:31 PM UTC:

Rule of thumb is that captures are about twice as valuable as non-captures. Pieces with 12 non-divergent target squares (i.e both capture andnon-capture) are approximately worth a Rook. Soone would expect that adding 4 non-captures to a Knight increases the value by about 1/3 of the Knight-Rook difference. That brings you indeed very close to 3.8 (N=3.2, R= 5).