George Duke wrote on Wed, Oct 7, 2009 10:54 PM UTC:
I started this thread, among a dozen other threads, over two years ago,
because I don't like to write articles for CVPage right now because of
their lack of direction. Anyway there are nine Demonstrations of Flawed
Centaur BN and Champion RN here. They warrant an article. The biggest flaw
is not even here yet thought sometimes mentioned. That is, they are so lame
as compounds they don't go paired as individuals but interlocked. You
can't have one without the other. Sort of like Schizophrenic Chess has
Left Schizzy and Right Schizzy. One reasonable exception is Janus Chess,
trying paired BN not without interest. Modern designers avoid the Knight
compounds with sliders, because it ruins the regular Knight. Everybody
knows that. I lost what respect I had remaining for Seirawan when he and
some co-author began advocating their RN-BN drop on 8x8. Real original. To
each his own. When Capablanca's name begins to fade, they'll call the
things Seirawans, well-deservedly. If, incredibly unlikely, Centaur and
Champion turn out to be some next phase, too bad for the CVPage million
CVs, since 8x10 Carreras, and 10x10 by implication, have been around since
the end of the first full century of the fine small 8x8 Mad Queen, now
played out (if it wasn't already in Capa's day). Capablanca had nothing to do with either inception, did he? To
call these things Capablancas, in accepted practice, is lifting from prior
art.
