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Andy, you're absolutely right. This game is interesting, nicely conceived, and has potential. Charles, my objections were aesthetic as much as anything else, and those centered on what I saw as too-extreme simplicity, a simplicity you may well have been striving for. After thinking about this for a few days, I realize I must withdraw those objections; certainly no lower boundary to 'Chess' has ever been established. I still think the game would be [much] better if it was beefed up a little. Your rules do need to be easier to follow if you wish people to understand. And, yeah, I think you could get away with just 1 capital letter for every piece in the diagram, using the same one for every side and letting position on the diagram distinguish the sides. But as far as I can see, you have a viable chess game here. Very simple, and close to the edge of chess, but you have forced me to re-examine just what the lower boundary of chess is. Love to hear everyone's opinion on that.