H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Oct 10, 2016 07:57 PM UTC:
Color binding does not really seem to hurt a piece, as long as you play it in pairs on opposite square shades. It will involve a pair bonus, though. (At least in the case of Bishops; I never really measured this for other color-bound pieces.) Which means that a single piece would be worth less than half the pair value. To see the Wizards suffer they should be started on the same shade.
I once tested a BbmW, to break the color binding, and a pair of those was just a tiny bit stronger than a pair of regular Bishops. And the gain seemed mostly from increased manoeuvrability, as giving the bmW move to the Knights instead of Bishops hardly made any difference.
Color binding does not really seem to hurt a piece, as long as you play it in pairs on opposite square shades. It will involve a pair bonus, though. (At least in the case of Bishops; I never really measured this for other color-bound pieces.) Which means that a single piece would be worth less than half the pair value. To see the Wizards suffer they should be started on the same shade.
I once tested a BbmW, to break the color binding, and a pair of those was just a tiny bit stronger than a pair of regular Bishops. And the gain seemed mostly from increased manoeuvrability, as giving the bmW move to the Knights instead of Bishops hardly made any difference.