💡📝sirius628 wrote on Tue, Jul 18, 2017 09:38 PM UTC:
Yikes! That's equal to or even stronger than an amazon, let alone a "mere" queen! The cat is worth about 7 Pawns, maybe 7.5-8 Pawns when you consider the multi-capture. That's roughly equal to an archbishop, and fit my predictions. A guard is only 3 pawns, oddly. I was expecting it to be closer to 4, given that a king is that strong. Because of all this, maybe I should have two queens and just one star cat per player, instead of the opposite. But wait! HGMuller says that the formula only works for pieces whose furthest move is no further than two king steps away, and the furthest star cat move is THREE king steps away! So maybe it's not as strong as we think.
Yikes! That's equal to or even stronger than an amazon, let alone a "mere" queen! The cat is worth about 7 Pawns, maybe 7.5-8 Pawns when you consider the multi-capture. That's roughly equal to an archbishop, and fit my predictions. A guard is only 3 pawns, oddly. I was expecting it to be closer to 4, given that a king is that strong. Because of all this, maybe I should have two queens and just one star cat per player, instead of the opposite. But wait! HGMuller says that the formula only works for pieces whose furthest move is no further than two king steps away, and the furthest star cat move is THREE king steps away! So maybe it's not as strong as we think.