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Question = Horse Vs Tower

In other words, which is better? Obviously a tower can go to both sides of the boards and do more squares but the horse gets them faster. So really open lots of space I think tower better and then other times horse better but if we tried to talk as a general rule like over all do you think the horse or tower is more important and better to use? also, how many moves (in general) does it take to make a tower better than a horse (Value) ? Like rough guess horse is 2 towers at start and loses .5 of a tower and tower gains the same amount every 25 moves. For example. I think in late game a tower can be better than 2 horse!
A tower is immobile, while a horse can move. That's why horse > tower.
If you want people to take you seriously please use the correct names: "horsies" and "castles". ;)
I think horsies is like a slang for horse and castle and tower are probably the same thing too
yeah and slang for bishop is elephant and for queen is sorcerer. For pawn is peshka. And for king is monarch. And when you check you shout "checkaroosky" if he's russian and "checkaronni" if he is italian. As simple as that.
Well in Spanish we call them "caballo" (horse) and "torre" (tower)
But in the spirit of the OP, when does the horse stop being better than the tower?
Of course the horse, the tower only go straight, the queen and bishops (over diagonals) also have that power, not impressive. The horse has a fancy move, a L shape and it can jump over other pieces, any other pieces can do that? exactly, no other piece can do that.
you're advice to develop the horse instead of the tower early in the game, why? because the horse is better and lastly, why lichess has a horsey logo and a horsey emote and notna tower? coz horseys are cool and towers are not.
A horse can have at most 8 scope and 2 squares if it is in a corner. an unobstructed tower has 15 so I think that it has more potential. it also can go to both sides of the board fast, and that might for example, cut off pieces or stop separated pawns. it can do stuff a horse cant. but in the starting position for example, the other extreme, the tower can't even move. so the question is, when does the tower's potential get realized, in terms of how many moves. Perhaps also worth thinking about is how much "line of sight" or other conditions does a tower need to be better than a horse? If I am planning a strategy over the course of 30 moves ahead for example, I want to know how important the horses and towers will be on the other side
Well given that grass is always greener on the other side, and horses eat grass, it stands to reason that horses can only become stronger over the course of a 30-move plan.

Though it's true that castles are more durable, so... who knows.

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