Please answer me one fundamental but inconvinient question. What is the sence of playing archaic chess if there are strategically more interesting new chess?
Izmail

There is a very handy tool to play Izmail via Shako.
https://www.pychess.org/editor/shako
Thank you very match!
Who wants to try it?
This is a fantastic novelty in western and eastern chess! The variant Izmail is a classical mirror-symetrical chess in the center of a 10x10 board with two additional pairs of Chinese chess Cannons located in the four corners of this board.