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Many players do not tend to think of a Queen as a Rook and Bishop fused into one piece, but after explaining
that the Chancellor can move like a Rook or a Knight on any turn, most agree that it is must be nearly as
strong. But what about the Archbishop?
If you combine the diagonal movements of a Bishop with the hopping capabilities of a Knight, how strong is that piece?
Basically, nobody knows for sure. In 1999, Ed Trice rederived some candidate values for the new pieces by building
off of the research of a mathematician named Henry Taylor from 1876. You can download this paper here
in PDF format. A quick summary of the piece values for a 10x8 board is shown below.
| Gothic Chess Piece Values |
| Piece |
Value |
Piece |
Value |
| Pawn |
1.00 |
Archbishop |
6.50 |
| Knight |
2.50 |
Chancellor |
8.25 |
| Bishop |
3.00 |
Queen |
8.75 |
| Rook |
4.75 |
King |
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The Chancellor is a powerful piece. It can move like a Rook or a Knight on any turn, so it is nearly as strong as a Queen which
has the combined movements of a Rook and Bishop.
If a Chancellor is able to move in such a way that it reveals the check of a Bishop behind it,
the meta-combination can become immeasurably destructive.
The concept of continually forcing the
cycle to repeat, where the Chancellor moves to reveal a Bishop check, the enemy King moves
out of check, then the Chancellor returns to give check in such a way that the King must return to a
square where the Bishop check can be revealed again is called The Chancellor's Vortex.
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