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George Duke wrote on Mon, Aug 4, 2014 06:46 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago to the day?
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/kristensens.html, a Baltic region
reform CV from mid-century, befitting the current Chess Olympiad location.

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George Duke wrote on Wed, Sep 24, 2014 03:55 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago to the day?

http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/n_europe.html,
one of new designer Charles Gilman's first CVs, at least among his first
dozen, after he said perusing whether 3-d Chess had ever been done.

Also ten years ago, Fibonacci: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffmove.dir/fibonacci.html

George Duke wrote on Thu, Nov 13, 2014 04:38 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago to the day?

http://www.chessvariants.org/dpieces.dir/maxima/maxima.html,  Maxima,
cousin of Ultima.  

Maxima by Venezuelan mathematician Roberto Lavieri has three possible win
conditions.  The Mage, as griffion or Gryphon, or several other spellings is first used over 700 years ago in Spanish Grande Acedrex, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/acedrex.html.

George Duke wrote on Sat, Jan 17, 2015 04:28 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago to the day?

Nine Queens:
http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/nine-queen_chess.html (compare to Berserker's ten Rooks earlier, http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/contest84/battlechieftan.html).

And ten years ago to the day Falcon poem fifteen: http://www.chessvariants.org/fiction.dir/poems/chess_morality_xv.html,
including what the Bishop says, 

"They think their order's not reached final stand...."

George Duke wrote on Mon, Feb 2, 2015 05:07 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago to the day?

http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/infinite.html.

http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/bird.html.

George Duke wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2015 04:26 PM UTC:
What was happening ten years ago to the day?

http://www.chessvariants.org/incinf.dir/bario.html.  Now all but forgotten,
at least temporarily, Bario received fifty comments in the first ten days it appeared:  http://www.chessvariants.org/index/listcomments.php?itemid=Bario.  Author Alex has made only this one rules-set, interpreted from German journal about 1999 (the same year as other current-comment game Pi).

George Duke wrote on Tue, Jun 16, 2015 10:41 PM UTC:
What was happening ten years ago to the day? 
http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/caliph.html, 
Caliph and Carpenter, http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/carpentr.html, by Charles Gilman. Over the next five or seven years Charles would
become the most prolific designer of all time, even more productive than
Boyer or Betza, the previous leaders.  All three maintained quality, no
philosophy of design for its own sake (like in my own facetious '91.5 Trillion
CVs').  What is amazing about Gilman's is the number of newly-invented
piece-types, over 1000. In contrast, I can think of several prolificists of
over 20 CVs who never invented a new piece.* Actually Caliph came about from
Hedden's, as the brief above shows, but Carpenter is one Charles Gilman's 1200 or 1500 new piece-types. 

Also happening ten years ago to the day Morality XVI "Body of Chess."  http://www.chessvariants.org/fiction.dir/poems/chess_morality_xvi.html. This week happens to be one for a papal encyclical on environment; there have averaged one Catholic encyclical a year the last 300 years.

*It is not at all necessary to have new piece-type for excellent CV, examples being Philosophers Chess, Eurasian Chess, Big Board, Mastodon, Three Player, Schoolbook to name a few, as well as mechanism CVs like Extinction Chess and Hostage Chess -- no new p-ts any of those. Charles just undertakes to name or invent every concept left; it started about ten years ago when searching for 3D chess forms and finding CVPage.  He must think now it's his obligation as countryman to do what Dawson did for fairy problems, to fairy pieces.

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Jun 21, 2015 07:21 AM UTC:
Actually I conceded that someone else had used the Carpenter too under another name, and as with the Caliph my main contribution was a name that could be extrapolated to other oblique directions. Were you thinking perhaps of the Canvasser, which I used in conjunction with the Caliph in Ecumenical Chess? As far as I know it was the first use of that piece.

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.

George Duke wrote on Fri, Apr 22, 2016 03:53 PM UTC:
What was happening ten years ago to the day? War_Chess. Zade's way here is probably the best method to handle wanted 10-deep, that is start standard Pawns on 3rd rank, and fewer than 17% of decimal 10x10 do it.

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