H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Sep 10, 2016 07:56 PM UTC:
It would definitely be a worthwile investigation to see how piece values are affected by board size. Even on 10x8 a lone Bishop turned out to be half a Pawn stronger than a Knight. Now that the latest Fairy-Max version can do 12x12 boards I might launch an investigation on this. The question is what context of other pieces should be used for this. With only a single rank of pieces and a single rank of Pawns large boards will be much less populated. Perhaps the army of Capablanca Chess augmented with two Commoners.
As to Berolina Pawns: that Spartan Chess seems to be so well balanced proves that the difference between FIDE and Berolina Pawns cannot be very big, as Spartan Chess pits 8 of the one kind against 8 of the other. Berolina Pawns are almost always passers, as they can pick their path. But this is often of little value, as picking a path that makes them passer also gives an opponent with FIDE Pawns a passer. It would be interesting to play a Berolina army against a FIDE army.
It would definitely be a worthwile investigation to see how piece values are affected by board size. Even on 10x8 a lone Bishop turned out to be half a Pawn stronger than a Knight. Now that the latest Fairy-Max version can do 12x12 boards I might launch an investigation on this. The question is what context of other pieces should be used for this. With only a single rank of pieces and a single rank of Pawns large boards will be much less populated. Perhaps the army of Capablanca Chess augmented with two Commoners.
As to Berolina Pawns: that Spartan Chess seems to be so well balanced proves that the difference between FIDE and Berolina Pawns cannot be very big, as Spartan Chess pits 8 of the one kind against 8 of the other. Berolina Pawns are almost always passers, as they can pick their path. But this is often of little value, as picking a path that makes them passer also gives an opponent with FIDE Pawns a passer. It would be interesting to play a Berolina army against a FIDE army.