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CSS Dixieland wrote on Wed, Nov 30, 2022 09:58 AM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from Tue Nov 29 10:12 PM:

Illustrious Mister Strong,

Deep gratitude for Your interest and Your constructive criticism of the game of Maidens Chess. A noble attitude that certain individuals will NEVER learn.

Following Your correct suggestions, the 'Tactics and graphic examples of the Game of Maidens Chess' and the 'History of the Game of Maidens Chess' have been moved to the Notes section, near the bottom. In fact, the instructions for filling the different sections state that the history of the game should be written in the introduction, but that is one more example of the lack of coherence of some characters who pretend to be 'Web Masters'.

The purpose was to move the History (or eventually the Tactics and the History) to a different page in the same server, hyper linked from this regular page. Unfortunately, A TECHNICAL ERROR of the 'Web Master' made the execution of that purpose impossible. Therefore it can only be done in the manner that You have advised, moving parts of the text to other locations in the same page. It is difficult to do that from a mobile telephone, but it has been done.

As You have indicated, probably few readers will bother with the history of the game, but those few deserve to have a history available if they wish to see it.

Maidens Chess is not exactly 'a vanity project'. It is more the remembrance of a game created by this author about 1969, and played over the physical board against human opponents. No special equipment was required for that, only the knowledge of how to play standard European Chess, the understanding of the rule of huffing, and the willingness to play this variety. At that time it was not known to the author that a very similar game had been published almost seven centuries earlier, by His Majesty King Don Alfonso el Sabio in 1283, in his famous 'Libro de los Juegos del Axedrez, Dados y Tablas'. His Majesty did not create the game either, he informs that he took it from Ladies of North Africa.

The difference is that the North African game (which King Don Alfonso called 'Juego de Donzellas') is based on Arab Shatranj, while the game created about 1969 and presented here is based on European Chess.

Nothing similar seems to exist amongst the thousands of varieties available in Game Courier or in the Chess Variants pages, so it was thought that Maidens Chess would be a welcome addition to the collection. It would NOT have been added if these fastidious problems of what constitutes 'acceptable content' could have been predicted, but that is impossible to foresee.

The author of this variety of Chess is also a polyglot and a book writer, and those personal attributes undoubtedly influence the writing style, much to the disgust of those who cannot stand more than a few minutes in front of any text.

Consequently, perfectly correct linguistic forms such as the majestatic plural or the passive verbal voice are seen by them as 'exotic'. Regardless of whether or not they 'approve' of those time-honoured forms of expression, they WILL continue to be used. However, never again in direct communication with them except by very strong language that will terminate all relations FOR EVER.

The writing need not be 'brief and to the point'. That modern pragmatism is ABSURD. With that senseless 'policy', no more contributions will come from us.

The author of Maidens Chess has probably read more books about language and writing style than the so-called 'Web Master' has. And when comparing between the texts produced by both in this Web service, there is no doubt that the former presents a richer and more sophisticated writing style than the latter.

Regrettably, the two code names of the said 'Web Master' have been included in the black list. No more of his inconvenient comments will appear in the general listing for the personal feed of this author. He may choose to ban the creator of Maidens Chess, for whatever reason or without reason. Vengeful minds are prone to that kind of childish tantrum. Then, so be it. In that case farewell to those Honourable Members with whom it has been a privilege to deal in this corner of Internet. Departing with the dignity of a soldier who NEVER yields. And with the satisfaction of knowing WHO IS RIGHT in this fastidious 'debate'.

Mister Strong, a brief answer to a technical question that You have formulated. It is possible to begin a new line of text without creating a new paragraph, this is, without an intermediary blank line. There are various methods, one of them is inserting the Hyper Text Mark-up Language instruction for 'break line'. It is composed of the Latin characters 'br' enclosed within angle brackets. The parser will interpret that as 'Carriage Return and Line Feed', and it will move the cursor to the following line.

Receive, Sir, the Confederate Salute that certain FOES do not want to receive.

Dixieland for ever !
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