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In everyday language ''according to Holye'' means on the highest
authority. Before astronomer Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) came up with The Big
Bang to ridicule mainstream cosmologists, there was Edmond Hoyle
(1672-1769), Whist expert and author  of definitive textbooks on card
games, including Bridge forerunner Whist.  More recent publication
'According to Hoyle' was first published in 1935 (Bridge was invented by
Vanderbilt in 1925.) and now has Richard Frey as author by 1996 Edition.
'According to Hoyle'(1996) describes under Chess among its 200 standard
rules-sets for card and other games, ''The Knight has a peculiar move,
best described as ''from corner to diagonally opposite corner of a
rectangle three squares by two. (Dr. Lasker)''   So, current 'AtH'
uses authority of GM Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941), since after all Chess was well-described before F.I.D.E. formed at Paris in 1924. Lasker and rival GM Capablanca of course were openminded about significant variants of Chess (unlike today's practical censoring of all but mild-mannered FRC or Chess960). Follow-up could connect Lasker and Capablanca with dozens of
rules variations.  It might have been better for FIDE, in hindsight, if at their inception was sanctioning of some other specific forms too, like then-new Kriegspiel or even Capablanca-Carrera's.