Gary Gifford wrote on Tue, May 20, 2008 03:55 PM UTC:
If we start with a game of Shatranj - it is easy to vary it and reach Chess, Shogi, Xianqi... etc. I can easily see these three games as Shatranj variants.
Many of today's CVs begin with Chess and vary from it. But, I do not think this is (was) the case with Tzaar.
Of course, one can keep varying pieces, boards and rules to the extreme... and by doing so end up with something that no one would recognize as having come from chess. In this manner, for example, an artist could start with a drawing of a rabbit and create a horrific beast, by increasing the size, replacing fur with scales, replacing ears with bat ears, fluffy tail with long reptilian tail... etc... when the artist is done we have nothing that would be considered as a rabbit variant (though it is). Only by means of such an analogy could I see Tzarr as a chess variant.
But does it matter? And would I object to it to being added at CV, for example? No, I would not object. But, like Go, I would consider it to be an allowed exception due to its strategic nature.
Many of today's CVs begin with Chess and vary from it. But, I do not think this is (was) the case with Tzaar.
Of course, one can keep varying pieces, boards and rules to the extreme... and by doing so end up with something that no one would recognize as having come from chess. In this manner, for example, an artist could start with a drawing of a rabbit and create a horrific beast, by increasing the size, replacing fur with scales, replacing ears with bat ears, fluffy tail with long reptilian tail... etc... when the artist is done we have nothing that would be considered as a rabbit variant (though it is). Only by means of such an analogy could I see Tzarr as a chess variant.
But does it matter? And would I object to it to being added at CV, for example? No, I would not object. But, like Go, I would consider it to be an allowed exception due to its strategic nature.