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Sign in to add a houseruleWhen the players are plainly mismatched, even the clock rather than the board: the stronger player takes half the time, so a twenty-minute game is twenty against ten. The position stays untouched, which matters — material odds change what the opening IS, and a player learning openings learns nothing from a board that starts a rook down. This is the one form of odds still in ordinary use.
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Each player may retract one move per game, and only while the opponent has not yet replied. Say so, put the piece back, and move again — the retracted move is not repeatable, so you cannot take back into the same blunder. Touch-move is the printed rule and stays the default the rest of the game; this is one stored exception, which is enough to keep a friendly game from ending on a slip of the hand in the opening.
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