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George Duke wrote on Wed, Oct 26, 2016 08:10 PM UTC:

Almost 20 years ago Tim Harding said what Wyatt van Dyke holds again now, that reform in Chess will come about this century. It is similar to religious fundamentalists who say in every generation the end is near but not right away, just soon enough to get donations.

Transcendental_Prelate. Harding is columnist for Chess Cafe, and the above article appeared on Chess Cafe; but it was so long ago it is poorly formatted to tell. After Harding's article in the nineties, Chess Cafe dropped topic of CVs, not by conspiracy but for vested Simplemindedness. Anyway Chess Variants get liberally discussed at other OrthoChess site ChessBase. The problem with ChessBase is that their indexing is so bad, it is difficult to find the 30 or even 50 times CVs have come up in a serious way, buried as the subject of reform is in interviews and history. Accesible at ChessBase in full articles are CVs FRC, Option, Switch Side, Tandem Pawn, Shogi, Seirawan Chess, maybe Capablanca and Xiangqi also.

Here's the quintessential conspiracy requiring Orthodox Chess masters: Turk, presaging AI.


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