JT K wrote on Tue, Feb 28, 2017 08:54 PM UTC:Average ★★★
On a standard 8x8 board, the knight and bishop are already very close in material value, so I'm not sure that this new rule would be welcomed by many players. Perhaps the uncertainty of its value would make the game interesting to some. Somewhere on the level of a rook or close to it?
I will add, however, that a "squire knight" would probably work very well on some of the large board variants to give knights more power and purpose.
On a standard 8x8 board, the knight and bishop are already very close in material value, so I'm not sure that this new rule would be welcomed by many players. Perhaps the uncertainty of its value would make the game interesting to some. Somewhere on the level of a rook or close to it?
I will add, however, that a "squire knight" would probably work very well on some of the large board variants to give knights more power and purpose.