💡📝M Winther wrote on Mon, Apr 23, 2007 08:22 AM UTC:
To my Mastodon 10x10 I have added 'Donkeys' instead of knights, in a variant. A Donkey moves and captures like a knight but can make an additional jump move in the same direction provided that the destination square and the intermediate square are both empty. Unlike the knight it can compete with a bishop on this big board. I don't know if it's good that knights have a clearly lower value than bishops on 10x10 boards. The fact that the Donkey is equally valuable as a bishop on this board means that a bishop can be exchanged with a Donkey without loss. This is not so with knights on the board. /Mats
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