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Aberg variation of Capablanca's Chess. Different setup and castling rules. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H.G.Muller wrote on Tue, Apr 22, 2008 07:21 AM UTC:

To Joe: Well, I already applied for member status a week ago, so that I
could edit my own posts, and others would not have to wait 24 hours to see
mine. But, quite frankly, I am not aware having said anything that requires
editing. I do not consider remarking that a theory that doesn't explain
the observations is 'nonsense', or that program A beats program B by a
large margin 'ad hominems'. Theories and programs are not people. It is
a pity that some people take such remarks as a personal offense.

I would applaud a piece-value item. Therefore I will defer directly
addressing your questions below until I know where to post the answers, as
they certainly would be off topic w.r.t. the Aberg variant. So I will only
say now that my aim is to get good EMPIRICAL piece values for all common
fairy pieces in the context of (approximately) normal Chess (i.e. in a
game with an orthodox King as royal piece, and orthodox, or at least
Shatranj-type Pawns that promote to a piece as powerful as a Queen). I
especially developed the Fairy-Max engine for this project. So if you
create an item about piece value, I will be able to provide a lot of hard
facts in the coming year. (And faster if other people would be prepared to
participate and donate their computer time to the project.)