Even tho I can't see the site, I love the idea of rule changes. We live in a golden age my friends; computers, automation and a massive online player base opens up so many opportunities to tweak the rules of existing games and see what falls out.

Maybe my rule change idea has already been implemented, but, other than building it myself, is there a way to play / automate chess / checkerboards of arbitrary sizes? Bigger / smaller boards, odd numbers of tiles, rectangles, etc. How about adding and removing pieces, an extra rank of pawns for example. Letting it run / learn for a million games or so and see what comes out.

Please let me know if yous guys have seen something similar.