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Agreeing with Graeme Naetham about drops, yet we find Seirawan's 'drop' the best available, being so modest and not disruptive, and the over-all method softens further if requiring Queen captured first. For Hutnik's 'community methodology', absolutely RN and BN are the ones to start with. Because on an all-time list of 25 pieces, there would be R,N,B,K,Q,(Western two-step-once Pawn),(hold Falcon that mathematical complement to 'RNB' in abeyance), Berolina Pawn, RN, BN... That makes nine or ten piece-types, and we are preparing the other 16, to total 25, for separate thread. Now the idea that 'static lines kill creativity' may only apply up to 8x8 or so. At Centennial Chess' 10x10, it is hard to see stock lines developing much even over decades. So, it may be peculiarity of just-slightly-undersized board. After all, Xiangqi goes on 9x10 and Shogi 9x9. There are the sizes then: 64, 81, and 90. Which would become overanalyzed first? It is obvious. Forcing 64 itself on the community is only for convenience of not having to use a Checkers 10x10 board. Hutnik's iteration method (C-, M-class) is correct or ideal, a simulation of culture. In fact, it negates both democracy and fiat. That third way, neither democratic nor authoritarian, requires consensus, concept occasionally in real geopolitics. What is 'IAGO' anyway in words? ///Hutnik seems oddly a spokesman for Harper and Seirawan's game at same time he distances himself from it.