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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Cardinalflight, be careful not to violate the Gothic patent with your random setups :-).
And for Tedbarber : What is a "balanced" game in your opinion?.What is "playable"?
Are these random setups not balanced and playable too? Both players have equal chances!
I think we have here at Brainking nearly all chessvariants as "balanced" games, except perhaps Maha- and Hordechess.
To your second point I will not answer.