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Ideal Values and Practical Values (part 3). More on the value of Chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jeremy Lennert wrote on Fri, Apr 15, 2011 07:09 PM UTC:
There are many non-switching pieces that also can't mate, though--and by your suggested definition of 'switching', there are many switching pieces (though not *color*-switching pieces) that can.

And Betza lists both can't-mate and color-switching as *separate* weaknesses in his list (IV&PV part 4).

So I still can't figure out why anyone believes that color-switching is a weakness, as opposed to merely an interesting trait.