Author: martin fierz
Date: 00:42:47 01/10/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 19:43:05, Brack Nickrow wrote: >My thoughts exactly, I may be a purist but i'm against the promotion of >alterations to the royal game! No human has ever mastered the game totally, not >even Kasparov and no one ever will. There is no reason to alter it. Growth >smoth it's destruction! Here should be no different than Frances body that >tries to protect their language from being corrupted. Protect Chess. Out with >variants they are for another forum! and yes yes this definitely includes FRC! i also believe there should be a dedicated forum for chess variants, *if* there are enough people interested. if not, well... the occasional posting about gothic chess or any other chess variant is fine with me. programming a chess variant is different than programming plain chess, but not that different that we wouldn't want to exchange ideas from programmer to programmer from time to time. the one thing that deters me from variants is what i have seen in the checkers world: checkers is/was pretty much a dead game (the internet may be changing that again in checkers' favor), and i'm certain that one of the major factors killing it was that there are zillions of variants, played in different countries. there are... - 8x8 10x10 and 12x12 boards - men can or cannot capture kings - kings can move one square or "fly" - men can or cannot jump backwards i'm afraid there are even more alternatives. but this is already 3x2x2x2 = 24different games if you take it to it's logical end. players from italy cannot play against russians cannot play against dutchmen cannot play against the english - this is ridiculous! cheers martin
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