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Piece Density[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Sam Trenholme wrote on Sun, Oct 4, 2009 03:52 PM UTC:
It's an interesting heuristic. FIDE Chess has an attack density of 4.5 and Capablanca Chess has an attack density of 4.0; however, no one argues that Capablance Chess has a weaker array of pieces than FIDE Chess.

Personally, I prefer the term 'defence density' for this heuristic, since King safety is more difficult in Capablanca Chess than in FIDE Chess.