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💡📝John Lewis wrote on Thu, May 8, 2008 02:14 PM UTC:
Thank you for your review, Jianying Ji.  The odd number of rows does seem to have an effect on the infamous 'first move advantage' because the tempo can be reversed by black as you noted.

The No Draws rule does apply to some of your concerns.  For example there is no stale mate because the King is allowed to move into attacked squares, thus he loses.  Some position where the game would take a very long time to resolve is unfortunate and I am not sure how to resolve them immediately.  I may have to have a default number of turns after which Black wins... but this could have unwanted side effects.  

I will ponder.

Any ideas are welcome.  Thanks!