George Duke wrote on Sat, Jul 7, 2012 03:59 PM UTC:
Stalemate as win would be a variant after gm Lasker thinking a century ago. [ Hey a Variant courtesy of the two powers Chess Cafe and Chessbase -- remember the Tim Harding Chess Cafe article a short 14 years ago 1998 ''Bring Back Free Castling,'' linked at end? Suggested using that and the article linked here following is the cv *OrthoChess 8x8 with Italian free castling and Lasker stalemate a win*! ]
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Http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8302. There current,
Stalemate discussion reaches the cautious online citadel of Chess, with
good historical background supporting the article. But don't expect any
leadership from Chessbase this teens decade, anymore than the last
'Aughts' decade, in the like of presenting, for instance, some historic
Raumschach or Jetan or even a knotty Carrera compound much beyond
Seirawan Chess. Those
three possibilities as topics are way too extreme for august cultured Chessbase, though they are respectively
100, 100 and 400 years old in their solid CV categories (Jetan too now
become important class itself of short-rangers with many a subvariant,
whilst Raumschach can represent all 3ds and other geometries). As for
more accurate history, those Carrera Centaur (bn) and Champion (rn) are 400
years old around this very year 1612-17/2012, and in a perfect world would be
common thread within a top-of-the-line Chessbase. Another milestone: T.R.
Dawson Grasshopper and Nightrider are 100 years old of year 1912, from when
variantists themselves were extremely cautious to invent and throw out a
new piece-type out of full respect for their comrades; rejecting a thousand
p-ts for the one Nightrider time-tested.
Http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz31.txt.