H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Sep 28, 2016 07:25 PM UTC:
The Elephant is also a piece with 8 normal targets and 4 non-capture targets,so it would also be around 360. If you play a pair of (Knight / Elephant / Zebra / Camel) against a pair of others to determine which is stronger, it is better not to set them exactly equal, but arbitrarily make one 10 points better than the other. This ensures that at one of the players will always think it better to avoid trading them. If they are exactly equal, the initial imbalance gets traded away very easily, and it becomes difficult to see any effect of it.
It should not matter toomuch if you set P to 80 or 60. The idea to use 60 was in the contect of scaling down other piece values too, to keep the total amount of initial material similar to that of Capablanca Chess (to not discourage Pawn pushing too much.),sodeduct, say, 10-15% from all piece values, like R=450, Q=855...
Note that when I was proposing to test Knights against Bishops I did not mean end-games, but start positions with Knights deleted for one side and Bishops for the other. And indeed doing 100-200 games isprobably good enough to get an impression how to set your piece values for the more precise tests.
The Elephant is also a piece with 8 normal targets and 4 non-capture targets,so it would also be around 360. If you play a pair of (Knight / Elephant / Zebra / Camel) against a pair of others to determine which is stronger, it is better not to set them exactly equal, but arbitrarily make one 10 points better than the other. This ensures that at one of the players will always think it better to avoid trading them. If they are exactly equal, the initial imbalance gets traded away very easily, and it becomes difficult to see any effect of it.
It should not matter toomuch if you set P to 80 or 60. The idea to use 60 was in the contect of scaling down other piece values too, to keep the total amount of initial material similar to that of Capablanca Chess (to not discourage Pawn pushing too much.),sodeduct, say, 10-15% from all piece values, like R=450, Q=855...
Note that when I was proposing to test Knights against Bishops I did not mean end-games, but start positions with Knights deleted for one side and Bishops for the other. And indeed doing 100-200 games isprobably good enough to get an impression how to set your piece values for the more precise tests.