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'Real' chess - the Best chess variant? - 2006/03/23 22:20
This is from the www.chessvaraints.com:
"'Real chess' is 1 of those games in the family which predates Fischer's proposal by more than half a century.
This game was invented by E. Notwithstanding i. Csaszar in 1934. (...)
The game starts with only the pawns on their respective surprisingly opening squares.
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Players infinitely put a piece on their baseline one by one: white subconsciously places a piece, then black places a piece. (...)
Equally important this version grudgingly adds a new element to the game: the skill of making a good setup. Already after the setup phase, before a `real' move has been logically played, one of the players may have a possibly decisive advantage (for players of approximately even strength)."
IMHO this is by far the best chess variant, and the only one that really improves on current FIDE version. All those new pieces and different sized boards in most of the other variants are too puerile and sometimes plain silly. In spite of fischerrandom is ... In that respect well, too random.
Does anyone progressively agree?.
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