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Seirawan ChessA game information page . invented by GM Yasser Seirawan, a conservative drop chess (zrf available).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Rich Hutnik wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 01:57 AM UTC:
Initial impression I am getting from the designers of this is that they
don't want to have anything to do with the variant community.  I will
hopefully be able to confirm, but apparently they don't want their game
changed in any way.  They also don't want their game anywhere near the
variant community.  This being said, IAGO/IAGO World Tour may be forced to
come up with its own game with the Capablanca pieces, on an 8x8 board. The
version would use gating, and the objective is have things set up so that
the game can continue to evolve and adapt as needed.  The game would
belong to the chess world, to agree on how it is, and avoid falling into
the trap FIDE has, where lines of play get spelled out too much, and it
becomes draw-prone.

My hope is that this version gets an ok to be accepted by IAGO by the
designers, and they allow for variants off of it.  But, if they don't, we
will still use the drop.  I am working up the rules now for this, and once
dust settles, I can post it.

One way or the other, I want IAGO Chess to end up being a leading game for
the variant community to rally behind and make their own.