✗ NCV ︱ Amalgam

We are excited to have you post a New Custom Variant, but unfortunately we are forced to auto-decline it because we are longer accepting variants with the standard starting position: there already subsists an abundance of them and the last added were pretty much innovative to an extent, while this is not. This position does not bring anything interesting and unalike to the already-existing set of the common variants.

Plus, I conducted an analysis on the position: it is a forced win for white. N-Check, Petrified and KotH pair way too poorly and result in a winning advantage for white, because in petrified it is now always possible to take the center by force by f4-c4-d3-e4.

Unless you find an unimaginably innovative rule combination, which probably isn't out there, we will not consider variant submissions that have the default starting position.