Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 13:25:59 01/09/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 16:20:29, Martin Andersen wrote: >The first rule of the charter: > >(Once a member gains access to the message board, he may read all messages and >post new or response messages with the proviso that these new or response >messages:) > >1. Are, within reason, on the topic of computer chess But, as a recent ex-USA President said [paraphrased]: "It all depends on what the meaning of 'chess' is" Bob D. > > >Gothic "chess" has nothing to do with chess. >There are 80 squares and 2 new pieces, Chancellor and Archbishop. > >At the webpage the author smears chess in favour of Gothic "chess": > ># Once the Queens have come off of the board, the game tends to be drawish. >Not necessarily true. > ># The second strongest piece, the Rook, does not come into play until the end of >the game. >Not necessarily true. > ># The Queen is the only piece comprised of two pieces being fused into one (the >Rook and the Bishop). If you "complete the set" of all such fusions (Knight and >Bishop, Knight and Rook) you get the game as it was meant to be played. > >Who decides that the game is meant to be played this way ? > ># The World Champion from 1921-1927, who lost only 26 tournament games in 29 >years of active play, wanted to change chess in the manner we have prescribed! >His ideas seem to have been "too far ahead of his time", and now most tournament >chess players conceed that he was correct. > >The latter part not true. > >Martin.
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