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Empire Chess. Asymmetric variant where one army has pieces that move like queens but capture differently.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote at 08:24 AM UTC in reply to David Paulowich from Sat Oct 26 11:12 PM:

For the few divergent pieces I once tested the rule of thumb that their total value is the weighted average of the non-capturing and capturing components, where the later count twice as much as the former. So mQcN was around 5 (N=3, Q=9 scale), mNcQ around 7. The Tower and Cardinal can also be written as mQcR and mQcB, so I would expect values 6.3 and 5 for those.