On May 18, 3:36 am, Harald Korneliussen wrote:

The big problem is deciding how big the handicap levels should be, and
finding a set of 52 openings that fits them.

This is certainly an interesting idea. And it certainly is true that
there are many Chess openings, and some are known to favor one side or
the other, so it would be workable.

Of course, I know why no one has thought of it before - for one thing,
the advantages from normal openings are relatively slight, and for
another, constraints on openings tend to be unpopular. This is true
even for Checkers, where they were unavoidable.

John Savard