Can players change the initial official position?
.Changing the initial official position is a deviation from the rules of MINISTERS CHESS, and can be only done as a diversion. In conventional chess, players often like to experiment for fun with unusual rules. By mutual agreement, they can deviate as a diversion from the formal rules. For example, by mutual agreement between the two players, they would agree to alter the initial positions of the major pieces before the start of the game. As an example a bishop may switch places with its adjacent minister (or knight) ending up on a white square. The same action is taken by the two players, such that symmetry about the horizontal axis passing through the board centre is maintained. It should be added that altering the formal initial position is foreign to MINISTERS CHESS formal rules which were created with the utmost respect for the teachings, tradition and history of chess. This is the essence of MINISTERS CHESS. It is the perfection of symmetry while deviating the least from traditio
