George Duke wrote on Fri, Feb 25, 2011 06:12 PM UTC:
This thread has only five comments for anything Betza said. Betza uses
''gnohmon'' without identification, and probably those all belong to
Betza. I started this and have not gone through most ''gnohmon'' yet
from 2000-2003. Provisionally, I think Betza stayed on 64 squares, avoided
80 or 81 or 100, and 90, because to his satisfaction he had found the next
chess, or he decided to act that way consistently for the rest of us:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=614. More
Betza thoughts are in articles than are in comments, and they could belong
linked this thread too. Being 80 squares, Outrigger(2002) is his only
regular cv of those above sizes. Does Betza ever use Xiangqi or Shogi
piece-types on 64 squares? Affirmative. In fact, many of the types -- but he never uses Cannon! -- and they need re-locating for this context. One example is Shogi promoted Bishop, Dragon Horse, found in Betza's Augmented Chess as the same (Bishop + Wazir).
Betza implementations from Xiangqi and Shogi never rise to level of ''variant of xiangqi/shogi'' as that has come to be understood by the usa/british crowd of re-workers in that art medium. In historical background, Betza
just stopped at around 150 cvs mid-2003. Incidentally, around that same
number 150 cvs five years later, Gilman said he would start cutting back
output, in consideration of repetitiveness, but 'Gilmans' are nearing 250
now. It may also be interesting here to explore comparison of Betza and Boyer
and Betza and Parton. This is legitimate topic thread for ''anything Betza.''