This seems clearly not true in chess. Any of the pieces could have a different moveset, or you could rearrange the starting position, and you’d get a viable game but one where strategy might be very different.
The AlphaZero work on evaluating chess variants seems to establish that a lot of chess variants would be fine. But DM only looks at chess, and I don’t know of a list of equally-attractive looking Go variations that one could test this way.
The AlphaZero work on evaluating chess variants seems to establish that a lot of chess variants would be fine. But DM only looks at chess, and I don’t know of a list of equally-attractive looking Go variations that one could test this way.