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Philidor's time did not talk of replacing little square 8x8 because there
was no need yet in 1750, half the life of Mad Queen.  Rarely used in
today's bastions of Orthodoxy -- F.I.D.E., ChessBase, Chess Variant Pages
-- is ''Next Chess.'' Blinkered they still go softly near their
citadel in ruin. They believe in it howsoever reverently. It was handed down. On topic to salvage it, their revered 8x8 standard, Joyce recently has overture to replace Queen
with Marshall(RN) in Betza-like Different Army for one side. Conservative
solution is related to David Pritchard's suggestion both sides have (RN)
instead of (RB) as Queen in Intro to 'ECV'(1994). Nearly certain is that
the correct evolution of chess is already inside CVPage.  The premise
should be the choices are  CVPage's prerogative for every possibility 
studying, and 1000 old-style ''grand-masters'' having studied naught.
Game of the decade the aughts (2000-2009) Rococo is unsuitable because too un-chess-like. I nominate triumvirate for the duration of year 2009, to change for 2010, the way FIDE was having annual world champions more or
less: Maura's Modern Chess 9x9 (with Bishop conversion), Winther's
Mastodon Chess 8x10,and Duniho's Eurasian Chess 10x10. The tri-solution
itself would be more important than the exact finalists. Technique of
yearly ''NextChess'' entails enforced play within Game Courier each of
such trio ten times per month any mix of members.  Mere 10 per month in
2009 would be 120 scores per CV, more than single most played new
game, Pocket Mutation, for all last five years. Or only about equivalent to one typical open tournament's couple days of ''official'' play. The Troika method of conflict resolution would buy time for more settlement of the dust.