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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Mar 30, 2015 02:51 AM UTC:
Thanks for mentioning that about the Half-Duck. I overlooked that, because its three-space leap had no link to a piece description. This means the Remarkable Rookies are all major pieces, which may give this army an even greater advantage. The results from my latest tests seem to bear this out.

I ran another set of tests today. I ran 12 simultaneous instances of Zillions of Games playing CWDA in expert mode at three minutes per move, which was the maximum time it could take for a move (short of forever, which would have required constant human intervention). I then let the 12 games play while I went to work. The last one just finished recently. So now I can give the results.

Colorbound Clobberers, playing White, beat Nutty Knight and Fabulous FIDEs but lost to Remarkable Rookies. Playing Black, they beat Fabulous FIDEs but lost to Nutty Knights and drew with Remarkable Rookies. Total score: 3.5

Fabulous FIDEs lost every game. Total score: 0

Nutty Knights, playing White, beat Colorbound Clobberers and Fabulous FIDEs, losing to Remarkable Rookies. Playing Black, they beat Fabulous FIDEs and Remarkable Rookies, losing to Colorbound Clobberers. Total score: 4

Remarkable Rookies, playing White, beat Fabulous FIDEs, drew Colorbound Clobberers, and lost to Nutty Knights. Playing Black, they beat everyone. Total score: 4.5

So now the ranking is Remarkable Rookies first, Nutty Knights second, Colorbound Clobberers third, and Fabulous FIDEs last. These results are more in line with my initial evaluations. Given that the Remarkable Rookies have seven major pieces, the greatest number any army has, it might be the most powerful, and these results suggest that. Since these results are based on much longer thinking time than my earlier results, I would consider them more reliable.

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