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This is a simple use of two boards and two sets - either two standard sets with one of the Kings marked as a Queen (e.g. with a coloured string tied round it) or two sets of which at least one has a spare Queen (I have often thought that a Henry the Eighth novelty set with spare Queens would reflect history well). If going down the King-marking route an interesting further variation would be to mark the d-file piece as a Marshal (Rook+Knight) and the m-file piece as a Cardinal (Bishop+Knight). This would have the advantage of being able to refer unambiguously to the 'Marshal's Bishop', 'Cardinal's Knight's Pawn' et cetera!
Hi, David Short: That's not a battle, that's a WAR, and another excellent idea I wish I'd invented! Even though I'm a bit green to online play, THIS is one I want to try sometime soon. Great Idea!! James Spratt
Noticing that I haven't previously commented on this, I must also give this an 'Excellent.' This varient is much more fun that I expected; the openings seem tame because the board is so large, but due the large amount of material, things become deadly in short order.
The more I play games with multiple powerful pieces, the more fond of Shatranj I become! Getting back to this particular variant, I dislike the idea of castling with an a-file or p-file rook. Free castling with the 'near rooks' will still allow the King to move up to 4 squares.
A search for *Pairwise* on the Game Courier Game Logs will turn up my two games of 'Pairwise Drop Chess' from 2004 - the 'free castling with the two nearest rooks' rule is given in the comments below each game.
You have to love such a big board variant that doubles-down (and then some) on the FIDE armies' piece types.
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