Piececlopedia: Crowned Knight

Well, based on the facts that:

- the side missing the f-Pawn in the FIDE setup (classical Pawn odds) scores 35%

- If, in addition, his opponent's Queen was replaced by an Archbishop it rises to 47%

- If, instead his opponent's Queen is replaced by a Centaur, this rises to 58%

- If one side gets a (3rd) Rook in stead of Queen, the other gets a Centaur and one of his Knights deleted, latter scores 46%

- If the latter gets an Archbishop in stead of a Centaur, he scores 49%

(all measuered in 200-400 games), I would say the evidence indicates the Archbishop is about 8 (close to Q-P or R+N), and the Centaur about half a Pawn weaker (7.5). That would give the following list

Pawn = 1

Knight = 3

1st Bishop = 3

2nd Bishop = 3.50

Rook = 4.75

Centaur = 7.50

ArchBishop = 8.00

Chancellor = 8.40

Queen = 9.00

I am not sure what you mean by 'research'.

This is exactly my point. If all he is doing is using an educated guess than he has to have a logical reason why he believes his educated guess to be correct.

The following pieces have the following activity. He has been showing them as spots for the pieces to move. Yet the moves also show the amount of squares which are being influenced.

Queen = 27

Chancellor(powers of the rook and knight) = 22

Archbishop(powers of the bishop and knight) = 21

Centaur = 16

Rook = 14

Bishop (bound by a single color) = 13

Knight = 8

Pawn = 2

In truth the Chancellor and the ArchBishop would be seen as fairly equal with each other.

Which might be the reason why on Capablanca Chess Board 10x8 board.

They only have 1 Archbishop on the queen side and 1 Chancellor on the king side.

If they believed their values were much greater than each other they would have a pair of 2 I believe. Such as 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 Archbishops, 2 Chancellors etc.

I believe they only gave 1 of each becuase they both balanced out to be equal.

The values I would give to each piece would be the following values:

Queen = 9

Chancellor(powers of the rook and knight) = 8

Archbishop(powers of the bishop and knight) = 8

Centaur = 6

Rook = 5

Bishop (bound by a single color) = 3

Knight = 3

Pawn = 1

Commoner or Man

If you were paying attention, you surely noticed that this piece moves exactly like the King! The only difference is that the WF is an ordinary piece, not subject to check. Because it is not "Royal", it can be called the "Commoner".

This is a very short-range and very flexible piece that is much weaker than a Knight in the opening, very strong in the middlegame if it can occupy the center, and almost always wins against a Knight or Bishop in the endgame.

Yes, that's right. An endgame such as K + WF + Pawns versus K + B + Pawns is almost always a win for the WF. Not only that, but the Pawnless endgame of K plus WF versus King is a forced win.

The weakness of this piece is that it takes a long time to get from one section of the board to another; for example, in the opening, it takes 2 or 4 moves to get a WF properly developed. Its strength is that it concentrates a lot of striking power in a small area.

So apparently the commoner start the game with less value but increase in power once the opening passes and enters the middlegame and endgame. 

Centaur may be worth between 6.25 to 7 max.

http://www.chessvariants.org/d.betza/chessvar/pieces/wf.html

You can't place the King ontop of the Knight on any chess board pieces I've seen in-person (or on Google image search). However, you can place the King ontop of an upside down Rook...

This Chess preset variant has a picture of the King and Knight being combined in one square:

You can make your own variant here:

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom

However for the board size, you are limited to just these sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12, 14.

All even numbers. I wanted an odd number board size.