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Dmitry Eskin wrote on Mon, Dec 30, 2024 12:16 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Sat Dec 28 08:18 PM:

I tested the dark elf army in Fairy Max a little.

With Berolin pawns, this army is weak, about 20% win rate (at least 2 pawns behind). With heavy Berolin pawns (additional horizontal capture, but no initial double move), the win rate is already about 55%, that is, close to equal.

After that, as an experiment, I added a change to the royal piece - a knight capture instead of a king one. And the win rate dropped to 24% (minus 2 pawns). This is interesting.

Perhaps the same will happen with the elven and orcish armies, I need to check. Is the king's capture (not the move, but the capture) really that much superior to the capture of a knight, bishop or rook?

I am increasingly inclined to think that when analyzing the value of each piece, it is necessary to evaluate the moves of movement separately from the moves of capture. In the case of the king, his royal moves of movement are weak, because they are slow, but the royal attack is apparently quite strong. In the case of the bishop, on the contrary, the moves of movement are very strong (two frontal diagonals), but the attack is weak. The queen solves these problems, having both strong moves of movement of the bishop and a strong attack of the rook. Therefore, the queen is stronger than the sum of the bishop + rook.

Although on the other hand, the royal capture did not look so strong in the first version of the dark elf army, when it was massively in all figures. So it's all quite strange.


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