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Omega Chess is one of the Poorest of the 600 Large Chesses in CVPage. Its short-moving Wizard and Champion would worsen an 8x8 adaptation if either were substituted for Bishops or for Knights. Bishops perfected mad-Queen Chess, and no (Camel+Ferz) or (Wazir+Dabbabah+Alfil) could have. A clever use of either Wizard or Champion might find a place on a small Chess 7x8 or 7x7. To put both of them on 10x10 (plus four corner squares) makes for long-playing Pawn-heavy-like game reminiscent of Shogi, whose variants unappealing most Western-style players. All they are imaginatively, Wizard being Camel plus Ferz, Champion being Wazir plus Dabbabah plus Alfil, are compound re-makes, each leg up to a thousand years old, although they never explain it straightforwardly that way in Omega Chess write-ups, as if making something from scratch. Yet seeing the nature of Wizard's and Champion's coming from Wazir/Ferz etc. could lead to Capablanca-Random-Chess-type extensions. For anyone with nothing better to do, actually (F,W, Dabbabah, Alfil, and Knight) are also fundamental combinations and more logical to base thousands of initial arrays on, than clumsy Marshall(R,N) and super-Knight Cardinal(B,N), if one would just avoid so many as ten ranks.