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George Duke wrote on Fri, Mar 25, 2016 03:37 PM UTC:
News Flash. <b> Oil Rig ChessBase to leave the Chess industry.</b> Good riddance? <p> The reason was scrutiny over the more than century tie of Little Chess with Big Oil and, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3506565/Rockefeller-Family-Fund-hits-Exxon-divests-fossil-fuels.html">Exxon</a>, today after 150 years Rockefellers have left Oil. Standard Oil and peewee "standard chess" started in the 1880s. The Oil Rig ChessBase contrivance, in league with formalization and casting out variants, got what it wanted: superificiality and simplemindedness and mindless Catechism so very dogmatic. Should we applaud? No way because moribund Simple Chess on teenie 64 is still obviously perfect to kick around. What other rigid custom is riper for ridicule in rejecting all but trivial change in century(ies) since f.i.d.e. institutionalization against heretics?

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