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Joe Joyce wrote on Sat, Jun 24, 2023 07:56 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 07:12 AM:

My argument isn't about shortening the total number of individual unit moves, but rather about giving all the pieces more opportunities for movement and involvement in the game. Just for starters, every opening pawn move is matched with a piece move. Right there, you get all the turns that are just opening pawn moves to move a piece, also. That gives you a few extra moves right in the beginning of the game. I believe that will force both players to use more of their pieces in a game. And that is doubly true if you allow any 2 pieces to move per player-turn. I do agree that each turn will be longer, and the game overall might go on longer, but that was not part of my considerations. And for what it's worth, it's a lot better than the only other option for "forcing" more use of all the pieces that comes to mind now, which is to just remove the pawns and play without them, which is in some ways very instructive, but does not give you anything close to a game of skill.


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