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Displacement chess

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Displacement chess. One of several variations.

Displacement chess is a family of chess variants, in which a few pieces are transposed in the initial standard chess position. The main goal of these variants is to negate players' knowledge of standard chess openings.

Variations

The following variations were tried in master or grandmaster tournaments:

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