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Capablanca must have mostly timed his 8x10 board size espousal to coincide with FIDE's founding July 1924, in the works to establish Orthodoxy as paramount or even exclusive. With that in mind, Capa was saying in effect that, hey, there are other possibilities, not so fast. Notice that DBPritchard gives year 1921 (p.38 ECV 1994) as J.R.Capablanca's reviving of Carrera-Bird Chess in new array of his own ''following his World Championship victory over Lasker (1921).'' At the end Pritchard adds an annotated game of 49 moves from London 'Daily Mail' of newspaper 1928 edition. So, lively discussion took place about Capablanca Chess stretched out from 1921-1928, because there are Comments in ECV by a score of other characters from Sir Richard Barnett to Archbishops Davidson and Lindsay to Emanuel Lasker and Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch themselves. Capa challenged Orthodox Chess, only one form of it, being unjustifiably entrenched and threw out his 8x10 and 10x10 commonsensical alternatives, just enough of a spanner in the works, from today's perspective. He had the courage, in whatever lip service to the new Federation Internationale des Echecs, to see its sure evolution and simply say, 'I dissent'. Maybe the thread really only picks up again with Fischer Random Chess about 1994 or 1995, when Fischer spoke out on behalf of that 160-year-old form in Argentina.