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       Piece Comparisons: Attack Fraction vs. Distance
       By: joejoyce Date: April 6, 2018, 11:20 pm
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       Some time ago, I got interested in shatranj-style pieces and how
       they compared with other shatranj pieces and more modern ones.
       Another member here, Greg Strong, an apparently no longer active
       chess variant designer, David Paulowich, and I kicked around
       ideas for a while. From my write-up of that time: "I was looking
       at the total number of squares attacked by several shortrange
       pieces and finding them grouped in multiples of 4 when I
       received an email from David Paulowich containing his figures on
       the average number of the immediately adjacent 8 squares
       attacked by the pieces in several games, ranging from 2.5 in
       shatranj and his Shatranj Kamil X to 5.0 for my Lemurian
       Shatranj [FIDE is 4.0], and his conclusions. I extended his idea
       and combined it with my numbers" to make a chart of the
       percentage of squares attacked at each range for a number of
       short range pieces and the standard long range sliders. (The
       board is assumed to be big enough to show the full footprint of
       each piece out to the range specified.
       [table]
       [tr]
       [td]dist 
       NDWAF
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