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Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 09:37 PM UTC:
Let's stop using NextChess, just drop the term. Instead there is PastChess, and this is it. To students of history Mad Queen/&Bishop was just Shatranj with the Bishop and Queen full-length. The fifteen years of Internet are the last 1.1% of Chess history and play years 600-2000. A drop in the bucket. Percentagewise the educated public knew and played Chess far more in 1910 than 2010. You were an ignoramus then if not knowing chess column or book and playing Chess. There has been steady decline for the century since Sam Loyd's death in 1911 and further Capablanca's death in 1942. The fall was happening already in Europe, USA and Caribbean, and now they say also precipitously in Russia too. There's lower percentage of interest today, compared to yesteryear; OrthoChess64 crashed already. How much? 50%. Probably 75% since World War II, any way measured. Why? Not Draws that get mentioned all the time like a one-trick pony. It would take books to document causes, including distractions radio 1920, television 1950, Internet 1995. Yes, competing Internet is actually responsible for more net decline of OrthoChess Past. As each of those went up, certain other activities went down, not only Chess. And particular Pastchess 64's having had several loopholes did not help. Such as, being little compared to big Shogi's 81 squares and Xiangqi's 90 squares means repetitiveness came about sooner at any level of play. Such as also, requiring Castling to maintain interest since there are so few other options for King-e1 -- the crowded thing. OrthoChess 64 was an unsatisfactory challenge for this day and age (Winther's phrasing about original Shatranj), and a theoretical hundred CVs are defensibly better launchpads.