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Grotesque Chess. A variant of Capablanca's Chess with no unprotected Pawns. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Anonymous wrote on Sat, Sep 25, 2004 07:18 AM UTC:

Another interesting idea for a large family of variants would be to arrange White based on one variant and Black based on another, not randomly but predeterminedly. In shorthand these might be termed things like 'Carrera's v Bird's'. The order (White first) would be significant as the first example would give different play from 'Bird's v Carrera's'. These would be intermediate between Chess with 'same' and 'different' armies, as the armies would start with the same pieces but in a different order. There is no rating as a further 'Good' would risk contributing to an unintended downrating.