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Game Courier Tournament #4: An Introductory Semi-Potluck. A tournament to feature games good for introducing people to Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 11:54 PM EST:

Sam,

You have just reinvented Duniho's Capablanca Variant. It appeared in my original Chess,_Large.zrf file, and I later removed it because I realized it just mirrored Carrera's Chess. Well, it's gratifying to know that thousands of computerized trials with different setups have led you to recreate a game I created 11 years ago when I was just starting out inventing Chess variants. :) Here's what I wrote about it in that ZRF: 'I agree with Hans Aberg about placing the Knights toward the center, but I disagree with his estimation that the Rook-Knight piece is weaker than the the Bishop-Knight piece. So I think his suggestions would lead to a less balanced placement of pieces. In this variation, Knights are closer to the center, and the Archbishop and Marshall begin on the same sides Capablanca began them on.'