Prescribed Openings
Keywords: Opening
KarlKnechtel: one possibility for Go variants is to just prescribe the first few moves, either based on some (poorly applied) theory or whatever principles. The opening can have an effective handicap deliberately built in, or attempt to be even - or just interesting.
This sort of thing has been done before; see Sunjang Baduk.
Other possibilities:
- The Trojan Ponnuki
- (add yours here!)