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Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Sep 14, 2016 12:09 PM UTC:

Actually my mobility program gives the griffin roughly equal to a queen a little bit weaker on crowded boards but even stronger in the endgame. The Aanca is the strongest among the 3 in the beginning but quickly loses power becoming 21.5/26 queens in the endgame. Clearly stronger than stated. I think the conondrum comes from the fact that mister betza calculations are based on rook and bishop. So the result is that the rook and the bishop are stronger. The bishop is still 4 (ok maybe 4 and something) because it gets a colourboundness penalty, but the rook must be higher. My mobility program give 0.63 queens for the rook.

That beeing said 4 pawns are definetly better than a bishop in the endgame. Remember the rule that they can even promote to a rook on rank 8, but I never got that far with my calculations.

So new values:

rook                  7.25

wizard               3.8

champion            4

knight                 4

bishop               4.2

queen                12

aanca                 9

griffin                 11

 

Apothecary chess2

zebra                  3

camel               3.2

elephant            3.7

knight                3.4

bishop               4.2

queen                12

archbishop         10

marshall            11

rook                  7.25