George Duke wrote on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 05:57 PM UTC:
Though I started the thread, I have not read this conversation much (yet). It
is welcome but a NextChess5 (there can be 64 nextchess threads if
necesssary) may have to return to basics. Namely, the core CVs of
NextChess3. They are Modern, Mastodon, Eurasian, Templar, Centennial,
Unicorn Great, Switching, Seirawan, Black Ghost, Big Board, Courier de la
Dama, Eight Stone, Wildebeest, Fantasy Grand, Venator, Great Shatranj,
King's Court, Three-Player, Schoolbook, Melee, Sissa. As art or craft,
each is crying out to be played. It is impossible to have played widely a
hundred CVs or a million CVs. That's why these Next Chess threads.
Anything can be made up, more than atoms in the universe. For proof of
that, see ''91.5 Trillion...'' or half the Betza articles, where he
tapers off into infinity. I think each variantist should be dis-allowed
from advocating his own games. I think each variantist should be prohibited
from playing his own game. Until NextChess has done its job. The work for
mankind and the future of reason, forming the basis of both art and
science. It is a hard thing, but your CV in general must be taken away from
you. You (in general) do not deserve what you created. As Nietzsche said:
''This then is the hardest of all, to close the open hand out of love...''