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Sac Chess. Game with 60 pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2015 12:07 AM UTC:
Let me examine what you said in more detail. You said,

> a single piece that combines the powers of two lesser pieces would be worth less than those two pieces.

Then as evidence for this you gave an example of something else,

> the fact that a Queen controls twice as many squares as a Rook (and as many squares as 2 Rooks), but is worth less than two Rooks.

If the Queen is your example, you must compare the Queen to the value of a Rook plus a Bishop, not to the value of two Rooks. Because you did not, there is no logical connection between your evidence and your conclusion.