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Mating potential and piece values[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Sep 27, 2012 02:33 PM EDT:
Interesting suggestions. I will keep them in mind. Similar in value to
Rook, (+/- 25cP) but non-mating are Nightrider and the color-bound BD.
Unfortunately Nightrider is a bit troublesome in Fairy-Max, because it
allows mutual perpetual check, which in Fairy-Max leads to infinite
recursion. BD produces the problem that it is a second color-bound type,if
I also keep the Bishops, so that the possibility for color-bound
hetero-pairs will exist. The current drawishness code does not test for
that.

It might be important to add it, because at some point I will certainly
want to test BD to measure its pair bonus.

12-move leapers are usually close to Rook in value. Perhaps the NW would do
it; as a pure alternator it does not have mating potential.

Bishop-valued with mating potential could be a fWFA, or perhaps sWFA.

I stopped the Commoners-nights match at 910 games, with 1.3% advantage for
the Commoner pair. That is about 1 STD, so not really significant.

The B-pair beat the Commoners in 480 games by 56.5%