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The birth of two variants: Apothecary chess 1 & Apothecary chess 2[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Aurelian Florea wrote on Mon, Oct 10, 2016 01:03 PM UTC:

I'm quite excited about the last two result of my 2 small apothecary games using Fairy-Max. It seems a normal B bishop is roughly half a pawn stronger than a apothecary 2 camel LmW but a quarter pawn weaker than a Wizard LF . So the wizards colourboundness doesn't seem to affect that much. The difference between LF and LmW should be 0.5 pawns according the H.G.Muller's rule of thumb (mPower=1/2 cPower) but it it's hard to tell. Here it seems a bit more, but there are several factors not considered in this approximation. The point is that the wizard's colourboundness is not that relevant. That's why I gave the camel and just move wazir power after all, and it doesn't seem to suffice.