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Doublewide Chess. A discussion of the variant where two complete chess sets (including two Kings per side) are set up on a doublewide board. (16x8, Cells: 128) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

gnohmon wrote on Mon, Jun 9, 2003 04:33 AM UTC:

'Castling your Kings toward the center might'

This might work sometimes, but it should be very fragile. The closer
together the Kings are, the easier it is to get a King fork. However,
putting all eggs in one basket may, as you suggest, permit one to make a
stronger defense with fewer pieces than would be needed to guard the two
widely-separated King sites.