help bot wrote:
On Jul 5, 1:25 am, "Mats Winther" wrote:
Enlarging the board has already been tried in Modern Chesshttp://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/modern.html
and in Grand Chesshttp://www.mindsports.net/Arena/GrandChess/Rules.html
and in Gothic Chesshttp://www.gothicchess.com/

Interesting. Were any of these variants devised specifically
to avoid what many patzers consider to be a drawishness
problem with chess, I wonder?

Well, Gothic chess is just Capablanca chess with a slightly different
initial position. Capablanca chess was invented by some patzer ex-
World-Champion as a response to the perceived drawishness of chess in
the 1920s/1930s. ;-)


Dave.

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