George Duke wrote on Mon, Aug 17, 2015 04:10 PM UTC:
John Lawson has no worry because he has immortality,
http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/pizza-kings.html, assured in the
Pizza Kings, even when he turns 100. Never mind that it's lopsided to the
Pizza Kings. Let's see P. K. turns 14 this fall or it may have been around a few months earlier than the write-up, having premier variantist Ralph Betza weigh in. Year 2001 or 2000 was right at the start of a decade of unsurpassed proliferation of CV forms.
To catch up with what went on a decade, try David Howe's 'Concise Guide' of 2011, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSconciseguideto, as well as Charles Gilman's M&Bs, still undergoing small revisions. Since proliferation culminated in those two, Gilman's summarizing about all that can be done, it's good it happened and the present era/decade seems for retrenchment and evaluation.
There may be solutions to Computer dominance within CVPage whilst hackneyed 500-year OrthoChess is on its last gasps. Deep Blue triumph nears twenty years too, and you don't hear the drivel from f.i.d.e. religionists since then that one-way 64 squares is inviolable (nor Shogi and Xiangqi). These two threads, one for 10 years and the other for 15 years, are also to avoid reinventing the wheel, retrospective filler whenever there is less current.