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The Ax is a valuable piece, of course, but particularly in the early and middle game, when the board is more crowded; in the end game when the board is freer, it seems to me the Singer is often of greater power, because of the greater number of squares it can control. - (Marauders of Gor, Chapter 4, Sentence #122)

I now had a Singer on a central square, but he had freed his Ax Four, on which he might now situate the Jarl for an attack on the Jarl's Woman's Ax's file. The tempo, at this point, was mine. He had played to open position; I had played to direct position. The Ax is a valuable piece, of course, but particularly in the early and middle game, when the board is more crowded; in the end game when the board is freer, it seems to me the Singer is often of greater power, because of the greater number of squares it can control. Scholars weight the pieces equally, at three points in adjudications, but I would weight the Ax four points in the early and middle game, and the Singer two, and reverse these weights in the end game. Both pieces are, however, quite valuable. And I am fond of the Ax. - (Marauders of Gor)