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My [2005-01-14] comment to the Carreras Chess page begins: 'Carrera Random Chess has become Pairwise Drop Chess. Two games were played on the CV Game Courier in December 2004. You start a game by choosing one of five pairs: R+R, N+N, B+B, K+Q, Archbishop+Chancellor and placing the two pieces on your first rank. Bishops must be placed on opposite color squares. Each player copies the opponent's drops, placing pieces on the same files, and then chooses another pair. This process uses up the first three moves of the game.'

I included 'free castling' in the rules of this game. These rules give each player some degree of choice as to the initial setup, but still allow thousands of different games.