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Capablanca's chess. An enlarged chess variant, proposed by Capablanca. (10x8, Cells: 80) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Carrera's, Bird's, Chancellor, Capablanca, Grand, Grotesque, Aberg's Capablanca, New Chancellor's, Cagliostro's, Gast's, General's, Arch-Chess, Grander -- [That's only thru 'G' so far.] -- each and all have the very same 8 types of pieces and relative merit. Each version argues for a particular initial position and somewhat trivial promotion or castling differences. Personally I rate Grand Chess in the lowest because of all the wasted space in 40% piece density: the Knights are just lost there. Capablanca 10x10 is cumbersome too and he knew it, so he went to 8x10. No one tries a 'Capablanca 10x12', presumably because Pawns nine-steps-apart fly in the face of some (instinctive?) unarticulated standard. It does not take much feel for the game, or sense of chess geometry, to reject some algorithms out of hand and even for sake of experimention, to rule out certain combinations, pieces and boards.