George Duke wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 02:48 AM UTC:
Switching Chess happens to represent Mutators for this project and may be mis-classified. CVPage
Mutators are chiefly attempts to salvage past-standard 64 squares, and
there are literally hundreds. They range from Lasker's exchanging Bishop
and Knight positions at the start to Fischer Random Chess to Neto's long
list. Pedro Neto invented Swap Chess in 1990s to allow Swapping along line
of attack in lieu of normal move. Friedlander implemented playing-applet
also called Swap Chess with the same rule as the 2004 Switching Chess of Quintanilla. Both
the latter have adjacent-piece switching at option counting as a player's
full move. Their only difference is the CVPage game's allowing King to be
switched too. The inventor acknowledges the prior art as tantamount to his
own later discovery. It is nothing to revel in, that one's announced new
idea or CV is not really novel, yet can just be rationalized by the adage ''great minds
think alike.'' This style of switching is good example of commonplace
Mutator widely applicable to almost every other CV. However, the best
inventing ethos ideally assumes responsibility for full knowledge of what
came before, as Ralph Betza enunciates in the 1997 interview by Bodlaender. Otherwise any earlier implementations of rules-sets are too prone to become copycats willy-nilly. Switching in place of a move, whether along line of attack or by adjacency, is not all that constructive in these Next Chesses, but was nominated and inserted for variety. Formally ranking last now here -- all these to be 30 CVs are intrinsically good ideas in their certain context -- Switching would be ideal instead for change in purely novelty CVs.
Mastodon > Unicorn Great > Centennial > Eurasian > Templar > Modern >
Switching.
