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Hello, David. I would be happy to swap games with you. I'd love to try an
8x10 shatranj game. It will probably take me a few days to get a skeleton
GC preset together, non-rules-enforcing so we have the choice of specific
pieces*. Never played Makruk, or any of your variants, so whatever you
want is fine with me. Ten moves a week is at the upper limit of my
practical ability, but five per is a good number. Looking forward to it.
Sufficient mating force: the pieces I'm inclined to use in our game of
'great shatranj' (an awkward name for an 8x10 size) are the 1-step
slide, 2-step jump pieces, like the Modern (Shatranj) Elephant. The
dabbabah-wazir ('dababba') steps one or jumps two orthogonally. Clearly,
the 2-step dababba-rider Gary Gifford and I are using in the Grand Shatranj
test game can, with the king, checkmate a bare king, having a move of 1, 2,
3, or 4 squares. But the Modern Dababba moves only 1 or 2 squares. Can king
and dababba checkmate lone king? 
*great rationalization for my being unable to do anything more than gut a
pre-existing preset.