George Duke wrote on Mon, Feb 25, 2008 06:08 PM UTC:
Vukcevich speech on future forms of Chess appears in 'Chess Life' October
1998. Vukcevich: ''Finally, Chess will be a completely different game in
a decade or two. Sports only teaches you team play, but Chess can do much
more for the soul of society. Those who have difficulty believing in the
evolutionary connection of Chess to Backgammon should remember that Chess
was once played with dice, that Shogi pieces are flat stones, and that
birds came from dinosaurs.'' ''At that time, chessboards had only
lines -- all squares were the same colour. Arabs introduced the checkered
board to help their children learn the game, and the children soon found
the Alfil piece too simple. The Alfil moved like a Bishop but only over
two squares. With the checkered board it became easy to follow Alfil's
motion over the entire diagonal, and it soon evolved into the modern
Bishop.''
''Where does this Chaos lead? Today mathematicians recognize that the
likely outcome of any chaos is self-organization.'' -- Vukcevich
