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How ahout because I'm not a mind-reader? The idea of a game on a board smaller than 10x10 never occurred to me on my own. If you read the introduction, Jack, you will see that I began by placing a 4x4 block of pieces where the FIDE Knight goes with a concomitant increase in ranks, files, and Pawns. So far the comments on the game as posted are from Jörg Knappen, who thought the board a little large for such weak and short-range pieces, and Christine Bagley-Jones, who was happy with the size but concerned about piere density. Now a lesser, or at least vainer, variant developer would say 'This is how I did it and this is how it will stay.' As it happens I am still unconvinced that the array is too dense, as it is dense with weak pieces, and have held out against changing on that front, although Christine's endorsement of the board size has encouraged me to retain the original alongside any second version. Jörg's comment, however, has given me the idea of getting right back to a more FIDE-like array as a subvariant, and if it works better than the original I shall be grateful for being encouraged to achieve it. Jörg has even been inspired to use the new pices in a new variant iof his own, on which I will comment soon.