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Thanks for the response. I have thought further, and thinks that the
dropping handicaps that I proposed suffers from similar flaws. Perhaps
the most chesslike handicap is to give the weaker side the chance to
augment the army temporarily. Say a set of tokens which for the price 
of one gives the pieces to take a step to an adjacent non-occupied 
square. One such token will probably be enough to even the odds between
the players when given to the second player. It would convert some draws
to wins and losses to draws. Though I could be wrong, for I am not too
good at judging these things.