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The birth of two variants: Apothecary chess 1 & Apothecary chess 2[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Oct 5, 2016 07:39 AM UTC:

Yes, it was that knight, the one with the four threeper enhancements. The fact here is that the knights enhancement is almost useless as a knight can go (3,3) in 2 moves anyway (NmG in Betza notation). And also it's too long. The point of this enhancement was not to have the same enhancement like in omega chess but I guess that one was the most interesting enhancement. Bishop pair matters of course. But this is the proper exmperiment I think as it is close to the real game (where you start with bishops on oposite colors). I think the elephant (who won versus the knight) would be closer to the bishop. I doubt any rock-paper scisors effects are in place in those 2 games. The elephant enhacement has a double role, it is long (not long enough to jump over board) and is unbounding.

Thanks for your help, H.G.