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CHECKING THE 'Exclude Pieces not in Setup:' BOX will spare my 56K modem the task of loading around 1200 piece GIFs. I have not been following your recent Big Games because of this loading problem, also Windows 98 has bottlenecks associated with holding that many pictures in RAM. My 1280x1024 screen can display all of a 24x16 board, so this is where I would:

remove the groups of pieces in the lower left [a1-e5] and upper right [t20-x24] corners,

go for a GIANT Burmese Chess (Mir Chess 32) setup by pulling the a-f file pieces down 3 ranks and pushing the s-x file pieces up 3 ranks,

remove the now-empty ranks 1-4 and 21-24 to get a GIANT Courier Chess board. Perhaps bring the center groups closer together (gap of 6 ranks instead of 8).

Well, you should have been expecting a weird response! By the way, my previous post wimps out on the crucial subject of medium range pieces: the Half-Rose can advance (3,3) or (4,0) or (6,0) along its twisted journey.