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George Duke wrote on Sat, Jan 21, 2012 08:34 PM UTC:
Somewhat similar to a dozen other piece-value discussions for ten years, these are mostly just demonstrations that take a minute involving one unpopular piece-type. Namely now Camel, that is among Gilman's 3000 p-ts in M&B03 on Ungulates. Ask any player, they all detest Camel. It is become a joke when a CVer inserts a Camel. However, Camel is good benchmark in that back in the 1990s, Centennial Chess at its complete table of values here within CVP puts Camel at 2.5. Stable clunky Camel stays about that number any CV, whereas interesting p-ts including all hoppers are more variable both between cvs and over a game score. After Centennial, henceforth any type called a ''piece'' and no longer Pawn, or Pawn-range weakened piece, is assumed to be worth more than lowly Camel. Nothing said denigrates that creative p-ts only somewhat more valuable, say in range 3.0 to 6.0, are absolutely the most fascinating of all conceived by man, generally speaking. Are all established Hoppers, excluding Cannon Pawns, pieces by value consideration? It appears so with the upgrading now of G and CG. Thinking of G as Pawn-value-range was erroneous brought on by Boyer's 50-year-old cv with the eight of them. It is not that engrossing whether in some embodiments, Camel and Grasshopper approximately overlap around 2.5. For one reason, they are an unnatural set-off because of both their sensitivity to array position, mentioned several times, the Camel because of its three-reach leap. For some follow-up anyway, what about mating potential of Camel, Grasshopper and ContraGrasshopper, a.k.a. Contrahopper? How many more than one of them does it take with just the King to mate lone King? One of 20 or 40 good useful tests as to p-value, that one test usually turns up a measureable difference in needed comparisons. No test should be absolutely conclusive. The suffix index p-t category being related is '-Hopper', and the above adds high-value Cannon Pawn, a hopper both actively and passively around 2.0-2.2 points, to all these M&Bxxs Hoppers, as yet omitted chapters and indexes. See Rococo for Cannon Pawn.

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