💡📝Kevin Pacey wrote on Sun, Dec 23, 2018 08:23 AM UTC:
I happen to be up late, ready for bed soon, but I saw your post right after it was made, H.G.. Fwiw, for one older CV invention of mine (4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj), I had noted what I had estimated the value of an Alibaba would be on 10x10, based on my imperfect formulae and methods, and I had worked it out to be worth exactly 2, though I made no attempt to distinguish what it would be worth in different phases of a game, with the given armies involved.
I happen to be up late, ready for bed soon, but I saw your post right after it was made, H.G.. Fwiw, for one older CV invention of mine (4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj), I had noted what I had estimated the value of an Alibaba would be on 10x10, based on my imperfect formulae and methods, and I had worked it out to be worth exactly 2, though I made no attempt to distinguish what it would be worth in different phases of a game, with the given armies involved.