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Among others as a placement method, don't forget Betza's Anti-PreChess: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/antipre.html, as the one comment there says "in the year of our Board 2000." Besides Betza, Brady addresses the pie rule in the above article's end line. Also plural phase is Winther's http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MLarrangementche. Then case where an imbalance is deliberately wanted, http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/oddschess.html, and how to systematize it fairly. In Transcendental, the bids are like deepened pie cuts: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/trancendental.html.
I wanted to get some feedback on this. Christian Freeling coined the term "Marquisian Method" which I had also previously called "Limited Dutch Offer" (Dutch Offer being a take on a Dutch Auction), but now means something a bit different. For myself, I came across this trying to figure out best way to balance A Few Acres of Snow. With the Marquisian Method, one player sets up both sides of a game likes chess, and the opponent picks one side to play. I now have the Limited Dutch Offer to be an extended version of the Method, by having it that a player can either pick one of the two sides the way they are set up, or rearrange one of the two sides and pass the choice back to the player who initially set up the board. Reason for the Limited Dutch Offer approach is to minimize the chance of trap positions being created, where a player who knows a position real well, could end up setting up a trap they can win. The Marquisian Method, which has its origins in Checkers, came about exactly like this. Anyone every try this, or want to, or have any thoughts to add?
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