While playing herculean chess against sxg, I camed across the following question. At which board size if any a plain zebra (no enhancements) becomes equal or stronger than a plain knight (no enhancements). On 8x8 a zebra borders on uselessness, on 10x10 is pretty weak but on 12x12 seems ok, I guess still weaker, as it has more outside the board jumps and also is a bit more akward (it triangulates worse). But as you enlarge the board speed becomes an significant advantage. Also if the case of only one square away attacking pawns (like the orthodox ones, or berolinas) the zebra may attack behind pawn lines, this can also be small opening advantage. Also I think that WZ or FZ will gain even faster on the WN and FN as the one-steps help combat akwardness :)! (FZ seems weaker as ferz squares can be reached by 2 zebra moves anyway :) ). Moreover in this last case the LW should be somwhere in between but as LF is colour bound we'd better not include it in this calculation :)!
While playing herculean chess against sxg, I camed across the following question. At which board size if any a plain zebra (no enhancements) becomes equal or stronger than a plain knight (no enhancements). On 8x8 a zebra borders on uselessness, on 10x10 is pretty weak but on 12x12 seems ok, I guess still weaker, as it has more outside the board jumps and also is a bit more akward (it triangulates worse). But as you enlarge the board speed becomes an significant advantage. Also if the case of only one square away attacking pawns (like the orthodox ones, or berolinas) the zebra may attack behind pawn lines, this can also be small opening advantage. Also I think that WZ or FZ will gain even faster on the WN and FN as the one-steps help combat akwardness :)! (FZ seems weaker as ferz squares can be reached by 2 zebra moves anyway :) ). Moreover in this last case the LW should be somwhere in between but as LF is colour bound we'd better not include it in this calculation :)!