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'This game has been independently invented several times.'--page 1, David
Pritchard's ECV 1994. A new dimension of Proliferation is the doctrine of
re-inventing the wheel of JJoyce. He has enunciated his doctrine for a
year and welcome him to explain it here. It says that proponents of
proliferation may re-create as their own prior-existing forms. Thus,
'prolificists' are not liable for finding relevant prior art. The
doctrine has precedent in earlier CV 're-inventions'. Fischer Random
Chess(1990's) is nothing but a revival of Baseline Chess and Randomized
Ch., types around since early 19th C. FRC is the 10th or 20th
reincarnation otherwise including Free Ch. and Permutation Ch. also.   Another example, Chessgi, named by Ralph Betza, actually dates to year 1827.  Peter Aronson says that he found Jumping Chess, or close types to it, have appeared frequently not much different.  The Page 1 (no less) reference above of ECV is about Absorption Chess, under letter A, an immediate theme running through 1994 ECV. Prolificists now loosen standards further to avoid study of others' work and go on with their
cranking out endless initial arrays. Several attempts met with resistance
to look at 'Proliferation' in years 2004-2005. Re-inventions are
just one part of it: the pointless so-called designing of starting set-ups one after another ad infinitum.