Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Andy Thomas wrote on Mon, Jun 5, 2006 03:33 AM UTC:i think it could at the very least be stated that, in general black and white play differently from one another. one way of alleviating this 'problem' - without the use of simultaneous movement, or in always allowing black 'one last move' - in a given game, would be to have a chess variant such that the two sides are for all intents and purposes identically placed at setup, yet the 'black' side has one piece 'pre-moved' in some kind of logical, standard manner. this might make up for any real or imagined imbalance. for example, if you applied this idea to FIDE chess, you could have black begin with 'king's pawn at 4' (rather than 2) as part and parcel of the opening setup, yet white would move first. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Point Systems does not match any item.