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Thanks again, Jeremy, on long Comment 17.July.2007 (six months ago exactly Robert Fischer's death now). It may have been changed in one phrase. Namely, ''one of the greatest innovations to come along in hundreds of years'' originally was roughly ''the greatest Chess innovation in 400 years.'' Latter version would key off Carrera's two irregular pieces RN and BN around 1617. Minor matter of rewording for more political correctness. The reason for going to this article now is recent misguided Comment on piece values, implying that Knights automatically do not hold up well against stronger pieces. Piece values are never the whole story. A Chess Rules-set done right is like trying to solve series of simultaneous equations. Variables include number of piece-types, power density, initial set-ups (See today's FRC ideas below), complementarity. By valuations alone, Falcon Chess estimates have Knight weakest: Pawn 1.1, Knight 3.0, Bishop 3.1, Rook 5.0, Falcon 6.0, Queen 8.5. Yet three moves Knight i1-h3, h3-i5, i5-h7 is Fool's Mate in Falcon OrthoChess array RNBF... Because of technically-weakest Knights' effectiveness here, other starting arrays are under consideration as standard: RNFB..., FRNB...