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George Duke wrote on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 04:31 PM UTC:
Muller, it is one topic and a boring one. Can't you walk and chew gum at
the same time? You are great programmer and mediocre CV thinker. Let's
move on. To repeat, Muller provisionally had approval to use Falcon
noncommercially years 2009 and 2010. He never responded at all. That and
inveterate criticism revoked permission. Chess Variant Page I am sure will
not permit links to Muller's by mid- to late-2009 and 2010 indicating licensing
unapproved. At Falcon Chess we want nothing to do with him for months now
since when he started his rants. However, Muller is welcome to enter other
topics on CVs here intellectually and look forward to debate. // THIS IS A NEW THREAD, to try to bring other fields' (math, history of chess) to programming talk that tends to be appreciated mostly by few participants.
Programming C++ was always easier than C. C++ is programmer-friendly. At
computer classes, even bank programmers do well in C++.  I have heard from
couple programmers Falcon is difficult. I am quite sure, from recollection
of C/C++, that Falcon is much harder than Queen. They would not be even of
same order. The same could be said comparing certain exotic, difficult
Mutators found in CVPage, compared to easy-to-learn, code, and apply Queen. However, strong
computer play of Falcon, or any CV, is of little interest fot the next 3 to
15 years. I hope actually that there are few for a while. Do we want CVs destroyed
before they are even played? For Track One complexifying, the question here is what directions should we go in board size, Mutators, or pieces? And how to encourage the crossover of smart chess-savvy OrthoChessists from their pastime to carefully-selected CVs?

George Duke wrote on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 04:37 PM UTC:
In trying hand at organizing CVPage Track One material, potential OrthoChess replacement, precisely involved is
matter of selecting the right Mutators or piece(s) for complexification. 
Guiding factors have to be aesthetics, precedent, and the feel of Chess.
What is needed is like Brainking or Game Courier, place for humans to
play, attracting more people, as Duniho laments is needed. That becomes
matter for public relations to some extent. Proliferation itself, the logic or the illogic, in CVs is no small part of the equation. An obvious model might be Game Courier, near at hand. But let's not personalize and instead call our system ''PCO'' for Play Chess Variants Online. The following is very elementary but has never been stated or maybe grasped. Suppose initially there are 40 Presets and 400 completed scores each year. Then on the average each CV is played 10 times a year. Five years later there are still 400 completed scores each year, but now 400 Presets. Each CV gets played once a year on the average. For more players, the target group is not professional chess players, but dedicated recreationalists. What they learn in CV-play can make them better, more intelligent people for other activities.  They ought to be playing chess derivatives for their own good. Does having so many choices unsorted tend to encourage or deter?

H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 05:51 PM UTC:
George Duke:

| He never responded at all. That and inveterate criticism revoked
| permission. Chess Variant Page I am sure will not permit links to
| Muller's by mid- to late-2009 and 2010 indicating licensing
| unapproved. At Falcon Chess we want nothing to do with him for
| months now since when he started his rants. However, Muller is
| welcome to enter other topics on CVs here intellectually and look
| forward to debate. 

You seem to have a big attidude problem. In particular, you seem to suffer
from an affliction known as 'delusions of godhood'. So you think you can
make an agreement, and then simply revoke it because the person you made
it with criticizes something you say, or uses a standard term you don't
like, or perhaps simply because you are in a foul mood and want to take it
out on someone? You must be out of your mind to think you can treat people
that way, and even more out of your mind to think they would let you get away with it.

Too bad for you that you have picked the wrong person to act out your
omnipotence fantasy. There was no legal requirement for me to respond to
your granting of permission, but in fact I did, by several posts, and, of
course, by actually making the engine. There is no way you can revoke
that, I will not allow you to weazle out of our deal. Fairy-Max will
remain on my website including the Falcon Chess preset until the end of
2010, as you agreed to. And I am sure CV pages will have no objection that
the links to it remain here for as long as I wish, and if they don't, I
will hear it from them, not you. If you want to renegociate, fine, but I
will only do it through your attorney, as I am fed up with you.

I won't be coerced in what to say and what not to say by you, or anyone
else!

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