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I think Smith gets confused because I quote both Galileo and his stupid
accuser and so misses the point.  Now Smith's other history is wrong in
this respect. Oppositely in fact over the past 100 years, with OrthoChess
64 supreme and founding of F.I.D.E. in 1920s, ''Chess'' to the masses
has unfortunately shrunk to one form, played in rapids and blindfold for
''variety.'' It is far cry from Capablanca promoting 8x10 Chess and
playing a large double chess on 8x16, and broadminded Capa's and Lasker's
trying several others. It is far cry from 100 years ago when popular
Kriegspiel was co-equal to OrthoChess among highly-educated. I believe contrary to Smith's assertions, I am constantly relating acceptable CVs to other spheres of learning and challenge.  Smith's comment is further off the mark in that, if you run a test of 100 or 1000 questions, I would shew more knowledge of CVs than probably anyone else in the world (certainly anyone around here, because of knowing 100s of patents too). Appreciation of CVs goes deep in threads CBM-I,  -II ... -VI, and other ongoing threads. The system needed is two-track not artwork alone. CVPage is the bastion of orthodoxy, not George Duke or Seirawan or anybody else, promoting as it does OrthoChess 64 squares 500 years old, often saying the Mad Queen is here for good (very unlikely), to the extent CVPage does nothing with the material it has first collected and then now basely encouraged to proliferate. No one cares about the next CVPage ''CV'' never to be played but bandied as artistic, notwithstanding declining originality across the board. Not to mention increasing insensitivity to prior occasions of uses of pieces and rules by other inventors, involving often mere tweaking of minutiae to claim ''new CV.''  Those are the problems to be taken seriously and in enjoyment.  The pointlessness of Art for art's sake. Instead, let's somehow begin to get the word out that there is some worthwhile material within these pages. Somewhere we can find it, often referred to as the hidden 1-2% of CVs, still remarkably numbering several hundred. Another string of comments attempts that constructively at related user-created ''NextChess-1 -2...''