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M Winther wrote on Sun, Feb 12, 2012 09:33 AM UTC:
I posted my very modest Flexible Chinese Chess idea to a Yahoo Xiangqi
group and the owner threw me out! I also posted it to the Vietson discussion
group, where I use to play Xiangqi. I wasn't dispelled but the message
was removed.

What's going on? How come they regard this little idea as so dangerous
and destructive? They seem to view this little enhancement as a blasphemy.
So I begin to wonder whether many chess players are actually religious chess
worshippers, and that's what causes the exaggerated reactions. This is
where religion has gone, into games! They are chess and Xiangqi believers,
not players.
/Mats

Derek Nalls wrote on Sun, Feb 12, 2012 04:26 PM UTC:
In a correspondence, L. Lynn Smith once wrote to me that some inventors
lacked imagination, that all they ever introduced were 'variants of
Chess' instead of 'chess variants' in the sense of infinite
possibilities.  Unfortunately, if the only mental limitation the people you
had trouble with was a lack of imagination, they should be pleased for
someone talented or insightful to happen into their midst who has
imagination.  Apparently, quite the contrary!  

I think people who have devoted an extreme amount of effort into trying to
master a specific game usually have an overwhelming tendency to feel
threatened by anyone who recommends ANY rule change, regardless of its
merits, because its complex ramifications would change the game throughout
and eradicate most/some of what they have learned.

George Duke wrote on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 04:21 PM UTC:
Good points. If Mats can accept expansion of the topic, I had word ''psychology'' in mind when this happened, not yet linked: Http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7764. What psychological off-putting stopped the Kasparov-Nakamura training after only couple of months? Maybe Nakamura did not do the right obeisance to all-time-best Kasparov. Then there is here the Kasparov attempt at Shogi, http://www.chessvariants.org/shogi.dir/kasparov/kasparovshogi.html, the last comment recently said was mediocre play by Kasparov. Why is Fischer Random Chess now the only acceptable variant to official western Grandmasters? That was not always the case, just think of Reshevsky sponsoring Zonal, and Lasker and Capablanca at 8x10 Carrera Chess. I think if CVPage or other entity declared a tournament of several CVs as having winner ''the World Champion'' say year 2013, the winning player of the same yearly tournament later could become considered the actual world champion, to eventual secondary status by the 2020s of any Xiangqi or Shogi or F.i.d.e. champion. Applied psychology, in that CVers wil have thought things through with imagination more than any OrthoReligonists east or west.

Excommunicated,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication. Heresy, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MLchessmoralityx. Schism, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSarmiesoffaith4.

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