George Duke wrote on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 10:15 PM UTC:
Mastodon > Unicorn Great > Big Board > Centennial > Eurasian > Wildebeest >
Black Ghost > Eight-Stone > Templar > Modern > Courier de la Dama >
Switching > Seirawan.
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24303
Big Board and set-up phase are interesting diversion and very possible long-term
solution with new tactics. Would players hold a Queen, or a Pawn, for the final seventh-turn single drop? However, opening theory of standard Chesses Shatranj, Strong Queen, Xiangqi, Shogi and others constitutes half their literature and presumed appeal. Big Board pushes opening theory to unfamiliar set-up rather than play. What is your opinion at Big Board or any of the other ''setting-up CVs''? Reminiscent of Turkish Great Chesses, fixed line-up Wildebeest has rotational symmetry and no mirror
symmetry in unusual type of array for CVs.
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/wildebeest.html
Wildebeest is Knight + Camel, commonplace within
'ECV'. Otherwise conventionally developed, it's a good embodiment having
logical Pawn three-step option. Bishops are simply adjacent, assuring their
opposite colours. Eleven-wide is also unusual. Wildebeest is a regular big
form with somewhat more attention deserved than the dark horses descending
from Black Ghost.
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/bifurcation.htm