Gary Gifford wrote on Tue, May 9, 2006 09:53 AM UTC:
I do believe Joe is on the right track now regarding GO and Chess Variants.
Changing GO pieces to Wazirs and Ferz would make it a Chess and GO Variant
at the same time. But that is not a game for me.
GO has been played as it is for about 4000 years, and I still enjoy
playing GO by its intended ancient rules. To get Chess, I simply play
'Chess.' But Go variants are out there. Games like Pente, Go-Moku,
Orthello, etc. There is certainly room for Joe's new GO-Variant idea.