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Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Sat, Aug 22, 2009 05:06 PM UTC:
Aching for the status quo, Larry Smith knows it is not ''totally conjecture,'' or that would be proof of 15 years totally wasted by CVing. Actually, there were revolutions 1500-1990 on a par with FRC. Never static, innovations along the way include: (1) Pawn two-step came about earlier off and on from the 13th century onward within PastPastChess Shatranj before the transition to Mad Queen. (2) Castling was by and large 17th-century expedient, upon seeing the ''wrong'' and ''damaged'' positions without it, forced to have King so centralized. For centuries up to 1900 Castling underwent experimentation. Castling came out of middle ages' King's leap within Shatranj, and there were several versions. Basically, the Rook had multiple destinations, and therefore King did too. Some ways were called free castling, a term we use a little differently today. These periodic alterations were themselves revolutionary and did not become of one accepted single use until almost 1900. (3) Standardization began in 19th century for variable applications of en passant and its negation, more or less, passar bataglia. Grudgingly arrived at, each establishment of essentially new variant (by loose cvpage standards) within the Mad Queen 64 paradigm -- progressively ending ambiguity and divergence -- served to entrench Orthodoxy. Almost immediately, grumbling resurfaced 100 years ago with Lasker's and then Capablanca's calls for reform. It became necessary to thwart such prestigious reformers, and F.I.D.E. was founded in 1924. By now, in these aughts, the first decade of the 3rd millennium, there is not much give left. There's not much room for reform anymore within that PastChess paradigm. FASTCHESS for PASTCHESS. Or FRC for PastChess. That's the other. Flag's up.