George Duke wrote on Thu, Jun 12, 2008 04:16 PM UTC:
8x8 is interesting Chessboard size to last. Long-reigning Shogi has 81
spaces, Xiangqi 90. Now 64/81 and 64/90 are 79% and 71%. They get a lot
of mileage in Western Chess from Chaturanga to Shatranj to Mad Queen out
of board about 3/4 size of Eastern Chess. '8x10' would still be
small compared to Shogi and Xiangqi. The ''holy grail'' of Brown in Centennial Chess is '10x10', decimal chess, but no one satisfactorily deals with the Pawns at that size. May 2008 here Carillo traces through history '8x10's from 1617 Carrera's, 1923 Capablanca's, 1978 Janus, 1996 Falcon, 2004 CRandomC, 2006 Mastodon, 2008 MCRandomC, among others.