The reason for this is:
All the Chess-pieces are equal in strength, one to the other. The Pawn can overthrow and capture any piece—the Queen can do no more.
That is to say, at its turn to move, any piece can capture any adverse piece; and this is all that any piece can do.
It is true that the Queen, on its turn to move, has a maximum option of twenty-seven squares, while the Pawn’s maximum never is more than three. But as the power of the Queen can be exerted only upon one point, obviously, her observation of the remaining twenty-six points is merely a manifestation of mobility, and her display of force is limited to a single square. Hence, the result in each case is identical, and the display of force equal.
The relative advantage in Numbers possessed by one army over an opposing army always can be determined by the following, viz.:
RULE
That army which contains more Corps d’armee than an opposing army has the relative advantage in Numbers.
“With the inferiority in Numbers, one must depend more upon conduct and contrivance than upon strength.”—Caesar.