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The birth of two variants: Apothecary chess 1 & Apothecary chess 2[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Aurelian Florea wrote on Sat, Oct 8, 2016 09:07 AM UTC:

The mZ enhanced knight was indeed considered weaker as I expected the enhancement to be long, too. But it seems perfect giving the circumstances. So in the second iteration the NmZ knight will be considered stronger. Also remember the real promotion rule. I wonder how are things on a 12x12. I assume that the mZ would increase in usefulness but overall the bishop will close the gap. On a 10x10 the knight appears to be better despite nothing being said on the omegachess.com. So this could be an interesting discovery. Not much can be said about NmG though, is very little stronger than a N on a 10x10. In apothecary 2 the elephant FAmH is the most interesting minor although weaker than a bishop. The camel LmW does cool things, too.