From: Kevin Maroney <kjm <at> PANIX <dot> COM>
Date: 27 nov 1993
Subject: XiangQi variants?

One of my favorite board games these days is Chessgi, which is Western/
International/Ortho Chess played with the addition of the "drop" rule from
Shogi (which allows you to take any piece you capture from your enemy and
place it on the board as one of your pieces on any subsequent turn, with
minor restrictions).

What I was wondering was: Has anyone tried any Chinese Chess (XQ) variants
which incorporate the drop rule? I imagine it would change the game
_completely_, since one of the major factors in XQ is the limited mobility
of the pieces.

For that matter, are there any well-tested or popular XQ variants at all
(besides Korean and Burmese XQ)?