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Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Sun, Feb 27, 2005 10:50 PM UTC:
To Larry L. Smith: Well I know, that e.g. Shogi starts with three undefended pawns. Nevertheless the game has survived for long. But proposing new chess variants is mostly running against immense critic. So there are voices, which claims that most of the randomized positions were unplayable. I do not believe that at all, but I think it could help, to select just those positions, which are positionally more balanced. That lead to write down the additional rule of initially placing the Archbishop and Queen on different colored squares and to select only positions with all pawns defended. Of course this will reduce the genuine 48,000 possibilities to some more than 20,000. But this is still enough to avoid any creation of big opening libraries. So applying the rule might be skipped, but using it would help to make the variant more attractive to critic chess enthusiasts. Thus it has become part of my proposal.

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