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Baseline chess with Fischer rules. Start with dropping major pieces on baseline, a variant that uses rules from Fischer Random Chess but is not random. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Ken Regan wrote on Thu, Feb 8, 2007 05:49 PM EST:
My latest thought is to require that (at least) one of the Rooks must be placed in a corner. This prevents both players from fianchettoing both Bishops, which might lead to early trades of them and drawish positions. This still leaves a good number of sensible startup positions---and since Black need not be symmetrical with White, this number is squared!