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Shatranj. The widely played Arabian predecessor of modern chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Andreas: Elephant=1, General=2, Knight=4, Rook=6 is my (uneducated) guess for middlegame values. Never forget that the Elephant visits only a pitiful eight(8) squares on the board. But I am comparing these with Pawns that vary in value from 0.8 (a- and h-files) to 1.6 (d- and e-files). The ancient Arab chess authors were less inclined to use an average Pawn value, which is around 1.2 here.
<p>'Thoughts on Chess with Different Pawns' is a recent Ralph Betza web page, where he has a lot to say about Shatranj piece values. For example: al-Adli thought a Knight was worth five(5) times as much as a Rook's Pawn, which is consistent with the values I gave above. See:
<p>http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/chess-different-pawns.html