George Duke wrote on Thu, Jan 15, 2009 06:46 PM UTC:
I would request perfect hybrid of Xiangqi and Shogi, to have either 86 or
85 squares. That is the only restriction if you please. The reason is one
is 90 and the other 81, and halfway is 85,86. Optional but preferred is no
OrthoChess KQNBR or P at all whatsoever. Now The chess Variants pages had a
contest of 84 squares for unspecified reasons, so that is irrelevant
entirely, even though up to 30 '''games'' came out of it. Thank you very much
sir.