Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To George Duke wrote on Sun, May 4, 2008 07:51 PM UTC:The Universal Library. Not without reason we associate every possible CV with a name. Every word or phrase actually in any language, known or unknown. 'The Universal Library' by Kurd Lasswitz was written as serio-satiric fiction in 1901. Cannot the first Chess Variant be taken as one of those in the Alfonso Manuscript year 1283? For Mathematics itself at same time, Spanish-Majorcan Ramon Lully (1235-1315), Raimundus Lullus, articulated the earliest version of the Universal Library. If we take one characteristic of something, Lully postulates, and state all the possibilities, we must of necessity state the Truth too. One modern version asks, how long will it take Chimpanzee (or Computer?) to type out fully-correct version of 'Faust', 'Don Quixote' or ''The Tempest''? A recent Comment -- ridiculing the infinity of CVs -- points out there are huge but finite number possible states of the Universe. In Physics also, dispensing with Time is explored by Julian Barbour's 'The End of Time'(1999), sentences of which introduce ''Chess Morality XVII: Turning Rhyme.'' Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID ChessboardMath does not match any item.