George Duke wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 09:59 PM UTC:
Http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7353. ''The Federation was
created in great haste and almost without preparation.'' The landscape included Dawson's great output in fairy and Lasker's and Capablanca's experiments in reform, so the rules had to be codified post haste. The above and the other two recent Chessbase articles, those on problems and problemists, are all current summer 2011.
