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Centennial Chess. 10x10 Variant that adds Camels, Stewards, Rotating Spearmen and Murray Lions to the standard mix. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

George Duke wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2011 03:40 PM UTC:

Centennial came up with a table of values 12 years ago, but 95-98% of several 1000 cvs, exclusive subvariants, do not even attempt. It possibly takes a day's programming on the average to ready close estimates by brute force, so why bother when they are not going to be played that much anyway. Speculate that some runs/+programming for values might require an hour or others a week if they are all new piece-types a given game. It is easier just to do a ''new cv'' write-up, earning a 2x2 square entry identifier on cvpage, and let it go at that. However, Centennial's are interesting enough: in the 1990s the two Pawns go Pawn 0.6 and Steward 0.9. The Centennial pieces in Brown's table are Rotating Spearman and Camel 2.5, Knight 2.6, Rook 5.0, Murray Lion (the accidental piece) 4.4, Bishop 3.1, Queen 9.1.