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Hello, George. I've been thinking about commenting for a few days now, and
think I have organized my thoughts sufficiently to say what I mean without
much fear of misinterpretation. 
First, this is a good title, I hope [and expect] the discussions on this
topic will live up to high expectations. If everyone excersizes a little
thought and care [and some restraint], we should do quite well.
Second, I'm glad you realize that although I believe the next evolution
of chess will be toward augmented linear sliders [I figure at least 2:1
odds on that, and probably a fair bit higher], I personally do not like
that direction, and would wish to see something different. I do think that
Gary [with BW and RF], you [with B-moa and R-mao], or Carrera [with NB and
NR] will have the last word on the next official change.
Third, you are right and wrong in your assumption that I didn't read your
91.5...Variants before posting my reply. I read it when you first posted
it, and skimmed it during the initial discussion. I did not read it
directly before my last post on that topic. But after I saw your follow-up
comment, I read it again. I understand exactly what you're saying there; I
did the same sort of thing with TooLarge. My conclusion stands unchanged. I
believe it is statistically 'unlikely' that 91.5 trillion possible combos
of pieces and setups will all be good games - there are going to be lots of
dogs in there. There will be trillions of cases where pieces and placements
will be mismatched to the extent they damage the game. There will be
trillions of cases where they won't be mismatched, too.
Fourth, I did presets and started roughing out rules for my recent
suggestion[s] for 8x8. The URLs are:
http://chessvariants.wikidot.com/8x8-variants
for the rough rules - still rough and it'll take me a bit before I can
clean them up [though, as it's a wiki, others could participate].
The 2 presets [ShortChess and Falcon King Chess]are:
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