If you capture a piece as first move, that piece loses its significance. It could have been any piece, or at least one of several. Perhaps even a vacant square would have done. All other pieces ar exactly the type they need to be for the puzzle to work.

This makes 1.XxY not exactly a cook, but akin.

If you capture a piece as first move, that piece loses its significance. It could have been any piece, or at least one of several. Perhaps even a vacant square would have done. All other pieces are exactly the type they need to be for the puzzle to work.

This makes 1.XxY not exactly a cook, but akin.