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[H.G.Muller]

Well, the 12x12 game (Chu Shogi) is close enough to normal Chess that a good QS will probably pay off enormously. The concern is the Lion piece, however. Two opposing Lions have even higher potential to cause a search explosion by going on a plunder raid than two Queens, and I can't see MVV/LVA ordering could put an effective stop to that. (As it does with Queens.) Because the Lions can make 'hit-and-run' captures with their double moves, with many opportunities to 'run' to a safe square after the capture, from where they can aim at the next victim of the raid. In fact they can move back to the starting square if that was a safe one, and annihilate all their neighbors from there one by one, in many different orders. So probably something special would have to be programmed to put a stop to that.