George Duke wrote on Thu, Sep 4, 2014 04:17 PM UTC:
Among others as a placement method, don't forget Betza's Anti-PreChess: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/antipre.html, as the one comment there says "in the year of our Board 2000."
Besides Betza, Brady addresses the pie rule in the above article's end line.
Also plural phase is Winther's http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MLarrangementche.
Then case where an imbalance is deliberately wanted, http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/oddschess.html, and how to systematize it fairly. In Transcendental, the bids are like deepened pie cuts: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/trancendental.html.
