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While I am certainly willing to believe in the inaccuracy of playtesting as a means of determining the value of pieces (unless, of course, there are a great number of games played by strong players), still, I have some trouble thinking of the Great Elephant as a Rook-equivalent piece. <p> And I wonder. While almost 1/2 the value of the Wazir might come from its forward move, does that mean that that forward move necessarily adds 1/2 of the value of a Wazir to a piece, like the Ferz, which already has considerable forward movement? In the Great Elephant's case, the fWfD component adds two forward moves to a piece that has four already -- it seems to me that there ought to be some principle of diminishing returns here. There is also the strange issue of directional colorboundness; that the Elephants are colorbound when moving backwards but not when moving forwards.