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Charlse Gilman wrote on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 08:30 AM UTC:
I have come up with two more ideas to help balance the sides, on which I
would  welcome feedback. Both involve the piece on d8 being a capturable
Queen, which would normally make Black stronger.

One is a ban on moving the same Queen two moves running. This would
represent mediæval women being both unused to exercise and poorly dressed
for it compared to their menfolk and modern women.

The other is to have flooding, an idea inspired by Piazza San Marco Chess,
and appropriate as flooding is not unknown in the Runnymede area (although
it is actually getting worse in modern times). Although there is no River
WITHIN the board, rank 8 could be interperted as the bank, with the
King's forces backed up against it (and hence forced to sign). Every so
(how?) often rank 8 would be flooded for 3 (single or double?) moves, with
rank 7 also flooded in the 2nd of them. Pieces on flooded ranks would be
immobilised, but White Pawns would get promoted as soon as they were on
the last non-flooded rank, either by them moving or by the edge of
flooding moving.

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