Kevin Pacey wrote on Sun, Mar 11, 2018 12:58 AM UTC:
I've added an edit to my previous comment.
Since then, I looked up an old piece type article on CVP (values of many pieces/pawns as found by ZoG, back in 2001) and found that a FN compound was thought to be almost worth a rook on an 8x8 board (while WN was rated just a shade more than a rook), and I would note that in this old article I've noticed many instances where I thought the value given was an underestimation more than the opposite (note that the value of a chess pawn is given as 1888.135, to better understand the scale used):
I've added an edit to my previous comment.
Since then, I looked up an old piece type article on CVP (values of many pieces/pawns as found by ZoG, back in 2001) and found that a FN compound was thought to be almost worth a rook on an 8x8 board (while WN was rated just a shade more than a rook), and I would note that in this old article I've noticed many instances where I thought the value given was an underestimation more than the opposite (note that the value of a chess pawn is given as 1888.135, to better understand the scale used):
http://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/whos-who-on-8x8.html