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Mastodon Chess. Standard pieces plus two Mastodons per side. A strategical big-board variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Michael Howe recently Commented singling out one CV for attention, Mastodon Chess. The opinion should be respected because M.Howe has indicated serious involvement with CVs for over 20 years, well before Internet sites like CVPage. So what is Mastodon? An old piece, at least 100 years, except for the new name. Nothing but a ''reduced Queen.'' That is the term I use in my Falcon Chess article copyright 1997 and published here 2000. The class ''Reduced Queen'' may be one- and two-stepping or one-, two- and three-stepping ordinarily. Mastodon Chess is not Winther's best CV, and in fact outstanding bifurcation-piece line-ups are one and all -- all 3 or 4 dozen of them -- better than Mastodon with its tired concept. The pundits and experts should try a piece-value calculation on bifurcation Venator, Gladiatrix, DoubleCannon, or CrossRook for a challenge and to break the mold.