BlargDragon, just don a blindfold, imagine it's a lady bishop and strike her flank with your crop while you shout "faster, faster!"
There's a certain level of abuse that I'd subject clergy to but not horses.
BlargDragon, just don a blindfold, imagine it's a lady bishop and strike her flank with your crop while you shout "faster, faster!"
There's a certain level of abuse that I'd subject clergy to but not horses.
Normally it's the clergy that carry out the abuse.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/the-sad-tale-of-the-pawn
There was a famous 1990's study by Larry Kaufman that analyzed over 80,000,000 positions and concluded the AVERAGE value of the pieces are: Q = 8.75P, R = 5P, B = 3.25P, N = 3.25P, and P=1P.
It also determined that 2 B's in the endgame are worth 0.5P MORE than B + N or 2 N's.
There's a rule of thumb that in the opening and middlegame, a N on your 1st to 3rd rank is worth less than a B, a N on the 4th rank is equal to a B, a N of the 5th rank is greater than a B, a N on the 6th rank is devastating, an N or the 7th or 8th rank is worth less than the 6th rank. Of course, there are a lot of exceptions to rules of thumb.
It greatly depends on the position. In general, closed positions favor a N, open positions the B. For those who say a B vs N endgame favors the B if there are Pawns on both sides of the board, look at this game, which I won with a N because my opponent's B was useless in the endgame:
GM Andy Soltis wrote a piece on this once where he concluded that if there are ten or more pawns on the board, a knight is better, and if not...
BlargDragon, just don a blindfold, imagine it's a lady bishop and strike her flank with your crop while you shout "faster, faster!"