nice idea but they should have kept the original number of oieces, just misplaced. They BIG mistake here is that one player might get 5 queens to play whole the other might have just 2. It isn't fairly mapped. The second mistake is that the beginning of the game, one player has a great advantage sometimes coz the pieces are so as to sieze the opponent's king easily in few steps, while his/her own king is heavily guarded. Also, number of horses in each time is highly uneven.