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Chess variants (10x8)

Sam has closed his piano and gone to bed ... now we can talk about the real stuff of life ... love, liberty and games such as
Janus, Capablanca Random, Embassy Chess & the odd mention of other 10x8 variants is welcome too

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3. February 2006, 19:24:19

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Subject: Re: Queen's placement in Embassy Chess and regular Chess

HalfPawn: Why are some games balanced while others aren't?

Because in some games there is a line that makes a player(1st or 2nd player, usually the 1st due to the tempo advantage) to have the advantage. Another reason or actually a definition to the word balanced, is the symmetry a game has. Another one is the ability to develop easily the pieces. Another is the variety of opening lines available to black after white plays. For example at Bird's Chess, after white's Ch3 black is restricted to play only 3 moves or else it would lose....
Embassy Chess somes close to Gothic Chess in all these areas but fails in the ease of developing the pieces. With this i don't say that at Embassy Chess is difficult to develop the pieces, but only that at Gothic it is easier.....