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Enep. An experimental variant with enhanced knights and an extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Jan 18, 2017 12:51 AM UTC:

I have made experiments using chessV to play Enep (the online available variant I think is still bugged). The extra pawn side has played white, the enhanced knight side has played black in the usual setup. Time control was 30secs/move. The results are:

white extra pawn wins           50
black enhanced knight wins   35
draws                                   15

That means a 59% ratio win for white. According to HG Muller's rule of thumb the knight enhancement should worth 0.5 pawns. According to HG Muller with Fairy Max pawn odds give 68%. In the enep experiment, assuming linearity and same level of play for fairymax and ChessV, we get half a pawn for the 2 enhanced knights, 0.25 pawns per knight. When seeing that my first instinct was to cast aside HG's rule of thumb. Second thinking though I posed the extra half point not on the weak knightwa but on better center control for the extra pawn side. Could that worth half a pawn?

Any thoughts on this HG?

What about you Greg?

Now I'm in the process of making the same experiment with colors reversed.