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Charles Daniel wrote on Thu, Oct 1, 2009 06:01 PM UTC:
Certainly, this shows that there may be greater tactical advantage for
white in some of these setups. 
But  one would have to be careful about this -- these engines are not 
very good in openings esp in making moves that are sensible strategically.


Note that only recently are advanced chess engines making good opening
moves without a book. Zillions for example is horrible in openings. 


I believe and I am sure many would confer that the Capablanca chess
varieties are the closest to orthodox chess when considering larger
board/new pieces type of games. 

I would like to see this experiment with the foll array:

R N B Q M K A B N R 

I believe this was one patented but nevertheless would be fascinating to
compare against. 
I do not like Queen not next to king nor queen in the wing for fixed
setups. 
I believe that the Alberg variation is the best setup not just from the
results but from the the nice initial placement of pieces. 

There was some fairly good work done...[following passage removed by
editor Jeremy Good for chessvariants.org policy reasons - email me if
details are wanted]

However, I see no mention of the Alberg setup. 



Myself, I have played some Capablanca chess games and enjoyed them, but
the novelty wears off after a while .. I was of course much more interested
in 10x10 then and  now I am reverting back to 8x8 ...but thats another
story.

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