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by vintermann
699 days ago
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The main thing is that people have invested so much in getting good at the game as it is, that they don't want to change it, making so much of their hard work useless. That's understandable, and OK. As long as everyone understands that this is the reason things are as they are. What's more mystifying to me is that in a weird variant like Duck Chess which has oddly gained a lot of popularity online, where so much of the hard work is invalidated anyway, they don't take the opportunity to fix the starting imbalance. In particular, in that variant it would be so easy: just let the first move be duck only! |
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I don't see why that would make a significant theoretical difference. Black plays first and moves the duck, he can block either e4 or d4 (or something offbeat like g6 if what he wants is to get a Modern Defence at all costs) but not the other one. I suppose there's a practical difference where White couldn't specialise in e4- or d4- openings, and Black gets to choose which to face depending on the opponent.
(And in any case, as above, I disagree with the thesis that the imbalance should be "fixed").