Everything is new and improved, tinkered with and reimagined... Chess has stayed contant for, er, quite a while. So if you could improve it (maybe by adding squares or pieces, or changing rules or moves) what would you do?
For anyone in doubt, this is NOT serious. I believe chess is like crocs or sharks - something nature got right pretty damn quickly...
Chess already changed in the past:
- sometimes castling is introduced
- using clocks and later digital clocks
- no more adjourned games because of computersprograms
- shorter time-limits
- not at your board when a game starts? now you lose immediatly
But the pieces and moves indeed didn't change for a while (except the first point). Personal I like Fischer-random the most. No new pieces, but shuffling with the startposition. And you start with zero openingstheory.
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