Has anyone seriously played a variant like Capablanca's chess, with an archbishop (knight+bishop) and chancellor (knight+rook)?
I've played a few games against the BigLion80 and fmax4_8w engines, but my games usually come to an embarrassing halt before the midgame is fully set up.
I haven't really sat down and analyzed the opening position, so I don't actually have a stable way to start developing pieces. In the Capablanca layout, there is an unprotected pawn on the i-file - I'm curious how well that could be exploited, or if it would be worth it to target openings at that point. d3 or d4 creates a discovered attack on that pawn in the first move.
I'd be interested if someone has already considered stable openings or additional strategies for a 10x8 variant like this. Searching for things like "Capablanca chess openings" doesn't really return the information I'm looking for.
Never played it, heard of it - normal Chess is hard enough for me though...lol
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