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Daniil Frolov wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2010 02:57 PM UTC:
What do you think, will such variant be roughly balanced, or one of players
will have large advantage, or it depends on exact set of pieces?
Unequal armies game, where moves of all pieces are 'reversed'; for
example: player A have silver general, player B have reverse silver on same
position (reverse gold and silver have certain names in shogi, i don't
remember); player A have piece, moving backward as rook, forward and
sideways only one steps away, other player's piece on same position moves
forward as rook, 1 step backward and sideways, etc.

H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2010 03:55 PM UTC:
From my tests with handicapped Lion pieces (FWADN), I earned that forward
moves contribute approximately twice as much to piece vaue as backward or
sideway moves. So if you would give one side all pieces with the most
forward moves, it would be a quite uneven battle. Of course you could still
give both sides mirrored (or rather, non-mirrored) versions of the same
pieces, but put some of the 'forward' versions in one army, and the
others in the other army, and acheive balance that way.

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