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Michael Nelson wrote on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 02:28 PM UTC:
Robert,

That is puzzling. Are there value gaps between the other augmented Knights
or do they test out fairly equal? Value of NF vs. R I could argue either
way as their moves are so unrelated.

I would think that the NF would be the strongest augmented Knight (even
though less mobile than NW) as it masks two Knight weaknesses:
colorswithching and inability to move a single square. 

NW masks one step inablility but isn't as forward as NF.

NA and ND mask colorswitching and give a a lot of coverage to the 2-square
distance.  These are very likely quite well mathced: NA more forward, ND
more mobile.

I really never had though of colorswitching as a major disadvantage, I
have even doubted it is worth considering. On the other hand one of the
nice things about Rooks is that they are neither colorbound nor
colorswitching.

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