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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Luke Skywalker: a) As seen in http://brainking.com/de/ArchivedGame?g=1111972 CRC is sufficiently complex even without unprotected pawns. So having 48000 candidates it seems to be a good idea to select those about 40% more stable starting arrays.
b) The king could castle with the c-side Rook and becoming placed at the third file (c) from left, or with the i-side Rook and becoming placed at the second file from right (i). The Rook will find its place then on the King's inner neighbour square.