Daniil Frolov wrote on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 03:31 PM UTC:
This just like FIDE chess with another one file with queen and pawn, played with cylindrical chess mutator ( http://www.chessvariants.org/boardrules.dir/cylindrical.html ), but pawns can promote to conqueror and other minor rules changes. I think, better decision is to remove rank with one of rooks (7 ranks, also odd number). But your variant is also good.