George Duke wrote on Sat, Oct 4, 2008 04:35 PM UTC:
By the way, less-playable Modern was selected with Eurasian and Mastodon
for year 2009 on account of its historical effort at being Next Chess -- and thanks to Hutnik for linking that record. By the same
token, Centennial for year 2010 is my top choice among the first six track
ones. I want to name the next three for 2011. Probably Next Chess as such
will never be a Chess Variant Page project, but CVP is great place to
discuss the idea. Finally Hutnik mentions many CVs besides meager Seirawan chess, as
opposed to frameworks. Hutnik hopefully will take the 500 CVs and try his hand at winnowing --
no small task. (Actually, Rich understands the difficulty, based on look at his extensive work already in Mutators.) What happened in the 1480's and 1490's may be
instructive. We can mostly only speculate, but probably one form ''felt''
right, and seemed exactly like the Chess they wanted. Now 500 years
later, CVPage did not even call OrthoChess ''Mad Queen Chess'' until
recently; and who knows but that half of 1000 GMs do not know even the name regina rabiosa? So constantly taking re-learning process. This very Topic of
''NextChess'' makes tacit assumption not evaluated, namely, that there
was a Prior Chess. Once some real next Chess becomes established, one may suppose by
year 2100, then what was done before, small 20th century fide 8x8 OrthoChess, will probably be laughed
at and scoffed as incredibly petty and unsatisfactory. They probably cannot comprehend and come to wonder why so much time was devoted to it.