H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Dec 23, 2018 11:03 AM UTC:
Well, a 50% penalty for simple color binding (i.e. access to 50% of the board) is really a luducrous over-estimate. More reasonable would be 10%, and then only for the case that you do not have the pair. You cannot really believe that adding a single non-capture backward step to a Bishop (which would lift the color binding) would double its value?
What do you think a piece would be worth that can do all moves a Bishop could do to non-adjacent squares (i.e. the Tamerlane Picket), plus all Wazir moves (to make up for the lost Ferz moves)?
Well, a 50% penalty for simple color binding (i.e. access to 50% of the board) is really a luducrous over-estimate. More reasonable would be 10%, and then only for the case that you do not have the pair. You cannot really believe that adding a single non-capture backward step to a Bishop (which would lift the color binding) would double its value?
What do you think a piece would be worth that can do all moves a Bishop could do to non-adjacent squares (i.e. the Tamerlane Picket), plus all Wazir moves (to make up for the lost Ferz moves)?