'Solid chess' might be interesting to play: it's identical to normal chess except both players begin with 3 rows of pawns instead of 1. My intuition is that it will make it much harder to memorise openings, and therefore place more emphasis on the middlegame/endgame (which should be similar to those of ordinary chess). Has this variant been studied before? Best wishes, Adam P. Goucher
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2018 at 7:48 PM From: "Dan Asimov" <dasimov@earthlink.net> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [math-fun] Another chess variant
I just saw this a couple of days ago on YouTube: The idea is to pit K of one piece against L of another in the context of avoiding checkmate. Two different pieces, one for each player, are chosen, like K white queens and L black knights. The W and B kings are in their usual starting positions; the rest of the squares on the board are filled up with (say) the K W queens and L B knights. Like (lowercase = B, uppercase = W):
n n n n k n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q K Q Q Q
(Of course the numbers K of W and L of B pieces need not be of form 8J + 7.)
It might be interesting to determine which ratios of which pieces lead to a fairly even game.
—Dan
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