George Duke wrote on Fri, Aug 7, 2015 03:56 PM UTC:
What was happening ten years ago to the day? Extra Move Chess:
http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/extramove.html. Then last year Paul Bonham writing for Chessbase made a copycat in Option Chess probably ignorant of Extra Move: http://en.chessbase.com/post/option-chess-by-paul-bonham. It's a legitimate subvariant but basically evidence of bad manners not to do a little background check what went before. Chessbase as a whole and F.I.D.E. as a force are ignorant of CVs with only half a dozen on its pages besides Fischer Random Chess. It has been spelled out they the obsolete Fundamentalists even censor their own history, like when and why Castling came about or what was the weak power of the Queen for 1000 years. But set off against original Extra Move, the Option Chess article shows
even their fumbling-in-the-dark interest to counter Computer dominance someday of games. One solution is to change the rules ongoing within play a la Betza May 2001: http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/manyrules.html; with Many Rules in force, please check out Betzan distinction between pictorial Checkmate and functional Checkmate.
