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George Duke wrote on Sat, Feb 4, 2012 11:20 AM EST:
TABLE OF SOVEREIGN VALUES (IV) There is no reason not to extend the table
P/T        P/V   Mate#        to hundreds or 2000 on a par with M%Bxxs
SCORPION   5.0   2            as it were supplement to it. Then like that
DRAGON     5.0   2            one, corrections unlikely more than 10% the
MASTODON   4.0   1            values, can be periodically entered. Notice
ARCHER     9.0   1            all the p-ts are for squares, because 
LARGE TANK 4.0   1            Square would be over 99% the interest
SECUTOR    3.5   5            among the world's Chess players numbering
FOX        3.5   2            a billion or two.
DUKE       4.0   2            The first test is usually Mobility, and the
CAVALIER   5.0   1            other 20 or 25 tests can be listed not too
MOTOR UNIT 4.0   2            time-consumingly.  
CAVALRY    3.75  3            Archer is Fugue. Once patented, Large Tank
         is Betzan 'Q3', two p-ts are from Rennaissance Chess, Motor Unit Novo, Cavalry Chess-Battle. Some few of these Mate#s are board-dependent between 8x8 to 12x12 including all of 8x10, 10x8, 9x9, and 10x10, not limited to them, but requiring majority of both ranks and files 8-deep or more each chosen board.  That allows boards such as Omagan 104 and Zig Zag and others so long as the squares all hold 64 to 144.
[Obviously 'Table II' Water Rook should read what is intended 'Water/Land Rook'. The first correction was the Mate# of Quintessence at 'I'.  This Errata can be ongoing until the bullets number about ten, there being only the two so far, then to put them in one comment's revised Table of ten revision/typos/corrections.]

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