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George Duke wrote on Fri, Sep 12, 2008 05:00 PM UTC:
Newton's line, ''If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,'' credits Descartes in same sentence on nature of Light. The very century two imperialist Empires British and French were most fighting up to Seven-Years War's millions dead, scientists would collaborate and also bicker (like Calculus, Leibnitz Newton?). Now Gilman says, ''Think of all the Shogi variants.'' What Shogi ''variants'' in particular? CVPage under its banner could list hundreds under Shogi technically. Millions of Shogis are easy to devise. So what? Chess-proficient outsiders might recognize the vast majority as artwork at best and failed attempts. Japan herself might have at most some couple dozen reasonably accepted, and they are the important ones, not really so many in number. In entities like CVPage, the main styles are based on either Western 8x8 expanded, or 9x9 Shogi, or larger 9x10 Xiangqi. The proliferation is not taking place at China or Japan. Where personal Artistic expression for little evident purpose is constant goal, even fewer real new Chess Variants are emerging now than ever before. Without wide playing in game scores, or Mates-in Two or End-game studies, and general cultural-rootedness, these so many Rules-sets (Eastern- and Western-inspired) do not rise to level of CVs by proven antique standards. They are mostly so much divertissement, scribbling or Joe Joyce's characterization ''aether.''

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