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Mutators. Gifford writes 20.May.2008, ''If we start with Shatranj, it is
easy to vary it and get Chess Shogi, Xiangqi etc. It is easy to see these
three games as Shatranj variants. Of course one can keep varying pieces,
boards and rules to the extreme, and by doing so end up with having
something no one would recognize as having come from Chess. In this manner
for example, an artist could start with a drawing of a rabbit, and create a
horrific beast by increasing the size, replacing fur with scales, replacing
ears with bat ears, fluffy tail with long reptilian tail, etc. When the
artist is done, we have nothing that would be considered as a rabbit
variant(though it is).'' --Gary Gifford in ''Tzaar a CV?'' 20.May.2008