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On Black Ghost, Joe, how about allowing only 1, 2 or 3 drops and otherwise
B.G. moves as uncapturing King? Right, year 2011 is mostly in deference to
Seirawan and Betza. Poor great grandmasters will lose significance of
titles in their lifetimes, and we fully respect every past effort at the
obsolescence, Crazy Queen 64 squares. CVPage can still be determiner of
all the replacements, the dozen or two new standards, and that is what
NextChess2 and NextChess3 are about. To get away from prolificism with
assemblage of prospective replacements for actual play. Otherwise some
different entity(ies) will do so. Running through David Pritchard's 1994
'ECV' is theme that 64 squares is inadequate and unsalvageable, so the
fact has been known fifteen years. The last to realize it will be the
hardcore OrthoChessists, still having 99% support, before anything will
have snowballed. Shatranj was perfectly popular up to the end, and anyone
reads great enthusiasm in Arab world composition for Shatranj 800-1200.
Something clearly better came along finally, and there were still holdouts
composing in the old style of Shatranj mid-16th century, described by
Murray 'History of Chess'.