::Thank you. *feels honoured*
I'm wondering now about the variants that are not covered by them. (All OR of course.) In sho shogi (standard shogi without drops and with a drunk elephant) surely the step movers gain in value. Meanwhile in dai shogi, does the bishop get a colourbound penalty? (Because they're both on the same colour, unlike chu. Dai-dai gets around this problem of odd-ranked boards with its asymmetrical setup, but at the cost of a large increase in the number of piece types.) Hmm, a read through Betza's "About the Values of Chess Pieces" is surely going to help here. ;-) If you like, we can discuss it somewhere whenever we need to blow off some steam.
I still like the sho/chu/dai/tenjiku quartet for the consistencies between them, though. In dai-dai and above I think too many things have changed with the promotions (e.g. kirin to great dragon instead of lion, phoenix to golden bird instead of free king etc.) for my love of consistency. Though the promotion by capture rule makes me think of WOTN (yes, teh complicated and kewl one!).