[math-fun] RE Chess Problem (H Baker)

The two-phase chess 'game' seems to less than well defined, and - as far as it is defined - seems to be a puzzle rather than a game as there is only one results ... 'draw'. Losing Chess, which prioritises losing and capturing men, is perhaps the nearest in concept. There are various variants of it, but recent work on the mainline version of Losing Chess (ICGA Journal, Vol. 37-2 (2014) ) indicates that 1.e3 is a win for White. Guy