Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, Dec 10, 2013 09:47 AM UTC:
Good to have your chess variants back online!
I browsed though them again and found Matron Chess very interesting. Just a
little rule change to make Queen exchange more difficult, but very
different game dynamics. The rule change is in some sense the opposite of
the rule on Chu Shogi lion exchange: With the Matron it is more difficult
to initiate a Queen exchange while Chu Shogi makes it difficult to complete
the Lion exchange by capturing the Lion back. The Matron variant leads to a
more offensive play which seems to be a good thing.