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H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Jan 9, 2013 08:51 AM UTC:
> The knight is worth a pawn less than a bishop. The rook is now worth
> equally much as a bishop + knight. There is now plenty of space on
> the board, so one is unlikely to achieve spatial advantage. 

If you are talking about 10x8 board, note that the intrinsic value of the
Knight is only 0.5 Pawn below Bishop, and that the other 0.5 Pawn comes
from the Bishop-pair bonus. So a Knight is only one Pawn below the FIRST
Bishop you capture.

Furthermore, the opening value of the Rook seems to be only equivalent to
(first) Bishop + Pawn, and a Pawn is worth significantly less than Knight.
Once on open files the Rook value could be upgraded by 0.25 Pawn.