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Hey, John, my guesses are just that, guesses. There are others - many, many
of them - who are far more qualified to give piece values. Most of what I
say was learned from them. It's a very controversial field, still pretty
open and unexplored, but I suspect the field is going totally from human
estimates into computer statistics right now. Here's the catch: very few
programmers work with CVs; FIDE chess is a gold standard of programming
skills, but I don't know of much more than maybe a double handful of
people who program variants. This doesn't count Zillions, of course, but
ZRFs are a little different than, say, ChessV, Joker, or SMIRF. So a
player who can make good piece value estimates can often have an advantage
over someone who can't.