Gary Gifford wrote on Tue, Apr 15, 2008 10:55 PM EDT:
Several of us at CV, myself included, came to believe that it was harder to
avoid a draw in Shatranj than it was to avoid a draw in chess due to that
lack of fire power. I believe that was one of the reasons Joe Joyce
created Modern Shatranj with more fire power than the original, that is, so it would be less drawish.