I always like your variants and find it interesting that you chose to improve on shatar. I wonder if your experience has revealed whether this variant is more drawish with the use of the hia and the older shatar restrictions on delivering checkmate. Do you think if one of the knights were to have the "enhanced" powers that Assia Popova described as appearing in the older shatar, that is, knight becomes an amazon after the first move, it would produce a balanced game affording more chances of checkmate? I am assuming, of course, that my intuition about this variant being more drawish than shatar is true, but perhaps it is not. I very much like your use of José Carrillo's modification to the hia power, which seems to create pleasing positional paradoxes.
I always like your variants and find it interesting that you chose to improve on shatar. I wonder if your experience has revealed whether this variant is more drawish with the use of the hia and the older shatar restrictions on delivering checkmate. Do you think if one of the knights were to have the "enhanced" powers that Assia Popova described as appearing in the older shatar, that is, knight becomes an amazon after the first move, it would produce a balanced game affording more chances of checkmate? I am assuming, of course, that my intuition about this variant being more drawish than shatar is true, but perhaps it is not. I very much like your use of José Carrillo's modification to the hia power, which seems to create pleasing positional paradoxes.