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Back one day, to JJoyce's question, what would players most accept
for change keeping 8x8, I would say the Queen. Notice that everyone stays
in their Comments within pre-established philosophical zone we have heard
before. GGifford is the eternal apologist for FIDE OrthoChess as having
been perfected. Oppositely, we maintain consistently that mad Queen, your
Orthodox, is dead. Or, as the Judge said 100 years ago in sentencing
cannibal Alferd Packard to be hanged til he's 'dead, dead, dead'(he was
later commuted), Orthodox Chess is dead, dead, dead. Who wants to master
what Computers find the right move for in split seconds? Sure a million
zombies are still playing it, but Internet play in particular becomes morally corrupting in encouraging computer aid(cheating) and dissuading creative moves. Some mores, or social changes, go fast, others drag on at length: it took Christianity couple  hundreds of years to replace the religions of Nature, hearth, and usages that prevailed around the Mediterranean: actually FIDE-type mad-Queen has been steadily dying for 150 years already.  Precisely Computers are why FIDE replacements, whatever 2 or 20, evolving must continue to evolve(not synonymous with 'to progress'), to stay ahead of them.  100% agreement with JJoyce that their FIDE can increasingly be ignored for all the new forms and means emerging.