Jörg Knappen wrote on Mon, Aug 13, 2012 08:45 AM UTC:
I have not analysed Chieftain Chess, therefore I cannot contribute to that
discussion.
ut here is another factlet showing the superficially very similar games can
have very different first move advantages: Sam Trenholme analysed some
Carrera Variants with different first line setups with respect to first
move advantage in this posting:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=23842
The numbers range from
White win loss draw games
ranbqkbnmr 46% 43% 12% 1010
to
rmnbakbnqr 53% 37% 10% 1011
which is remarkable. (I won't take the numbers too seriously, because the
draw rate is suspiciously low. I expect human master play to have more
draws.)