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Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, Sep 23, 2004 07:19 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
This arrangement of simple pieces opens a whole new debate. RB-N--N-BR
alone protects all but the d and g Pawns. Therefore any arrangement of the
four compound pieces will protect all Pawns as only one lacks the required
diagonal move. What are the relative merits of the 12 distinct
arrangements (or even just the 6 with a centralised King)?
	In case anyone is wondering, it may be worth stating that the origin of
the piece names used here is Bird's Chess.
	I agree with the others that this variant is far from grotesque. Perhaps
as the distinctive feature is having Knights so near the middle a good
name might be Mid(k)night Chess. On the other hand Grotesque Chess would
be a far better name for the variant currently called British Chess, which
was mentioned in an earlier comment.

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