Rich Hutnik wrote on Thu, Apr 17, 2008 11:46 PM UTC:
Jianying Ji, move the pawns forward one? I stumbled across this when trying to adapt Grand Chess to an 8x8 board. The end result is Near Chess on here. Please do review this. I also take a bunch of things out of normal chess when going this route. The rules are here, if anyone wants to play with them:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSnearchess
I will hopefully have a PDF up on Boardgame Geek that will be downloadable. I do find it makes things interesting actually. The position holds its own for the most part against regular chess.
I personally believe the issue with draws isn't draws, but how they are scored.