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Suffix Index to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of suffixes used in the Man and Beast series.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jeremy Lennert wrote on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 09:00 AM UTC:
Grasshopper and Contragrasshopper are certainly similar, and have the same Betza mobility (3.2 with magic number = .7, which would suggest a value around 1.5 pawns).

Since both will lose value rapidly as the board empties, I suspect their practical worth will usually just be a question of what you can trade them for.  The Grasshopper (but probably not the Contragrasshopper) is very good at threatening undeveloped enemy pieces behind a pawn wall; replacing ANY of white's backrow pieces with a Grasshopper in an otherwise FIDE game allows a fork on turn 1.  But without such a favorable opening (for example, if you start the pawns on ranks 3 and 6), I'm skeptical whether they are even as good as a Wazir or Ferz.