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Capablanca's chess. An enlarged chess variant, proposed by Capablanca. (10x8, Cells: 80) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Thomas Alsop wrote on Thu, Jan 6, 2005 12:53 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

Before I was aware of the existence of Capablanca Random Chess(CRC), I had
designed my own hybrid of Fischer Random Chess(FRC)(sometimes known as
Chess960) and Capablanca Chess. My hybrid, Capablanca84000, includes 84000
set-ups as opposed to the 21259 for CRC.
The rule differences are:
1. CRC states that the queen and archbishop must be placed on opposite
coloured squares. Since neither piece is colour-bound (unlike the bishops)
I had not chosen to include this rule. Indeed, a common and logical first
move for the archbishop is that of the knight-style jump, thus landing it
on a different coloured square. If it can be proven that the jump is the
more common first move for the archbishop, it would be equally logical to
place the queen and archbishop on same coloured squares.
2. CRC states that each pawn must be covered. FRC does not and neither
does Capablanca84000. If FRC did include this rule, it would no longer
contain 960 set-ups since some contain uncovered pawns. For example,
set-ups which begin with knight-knight-rook starting from either the a- or
h-file contain 2 uncovered pawns on either the a and b files or g and h
files.