Consider a chess variant in which the two-square initial pawn move is eliminated. More moves happen before pieces start interacting with each other. Openings become less sharp: less often will a move force a narrow set of good responses. This allows opening theory to become more varied, seeking a similar goal as Chess960: prevent opening theory from causing the death of the game through book draws.
Of course, we could still also additionally shuffle pieces, as Chess960 does, behind our slower-moving pawns.
Previously: random placement of pawns as an alternative to Chess960, and hypermodern openings.
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