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Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Larry Smith wrote on Sun, Feb 27, 2005 08:37 PM UTC:
Why does each Pawn need to be defended at the initial set-up?

This seems to be an arbitrary rule.  There are many good Chess games where
each and every Pawn is not defended at the start.

In fact, these un-defended Pawns can create a nice area of early
contention in play.

Is there an actual 'flawed' setup, resulting in the loss of the game for
one or the other player?