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George Duke wrote on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 07:01 PM UTC:
11.1.11 numero uno and context helps. What was happening 1 year ago & 3
years ago & 5 years ago & 10 years ago? Comments occasionally recalled
should be back within 24 hours exactly and posts the same exact week
corresponding 1/3/5/10 ago.
1 year ago today: Star Trek cvs are found to be physical sport as well as
mind sport, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24825; and Fairy-Max, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24824. 
3 years ago today: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18550, in which the number of variates unequivocally delineated by descriptors reacheth nigh one per atom inside Earth and atmosphere. 
5 years ago today: Ingrid Lael on The Game of Nemeroth, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12022; and A. Black on Proto-Xiang-Qi, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12036.
And 10 years ago allowing the same month a while, til things thicken: 
http://www.chessvariants.org/ratings/-large.dir-freeling.html.

George Duke wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2011 10:38 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago? Exactly 13.01.01 to the day was result of the 32-Turn Contest, won by Rolling Kings, http://www.chessvariants.org/32turn.dir/results.html. Notice not Spanish but Italian to English. No entry could allow more than 32 moves to complete a game, http://www.chessvariants.org/32turn.dir/challenge.html, http://www.chessvariants.org/32turn.dir/index.html. Also now the month January 2011 has Calorie Chess limiting moves.

George Duke wrote on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 04:58 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago? 
http://www.chessvariants.org/boardrules.dir/infinite.html, academic;
http://www.chessvariants.org/difftaking.dir/doubleendedchess.html, still uncommented.
Ten years ago to the day: http://www.chessvariants.org/41.dir/familymatters/index.html, intricate.
http://www.chessvariants.org/hexagonal.dir/glinski/contest2001.html, in which ten years ago to the day Aronson won his second contest of that week: Rolling Kings for cv 32-turn and these Hexagonal posers.

George Duke wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2011 05:31 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago?  Big Board(NextChess#8),
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/bbchess/bbchess.html, really a
Mutator invented 1974.
What was happening 5 years ago? 5 years ago to the day, Elos,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12111, and
five years ago to the day, Double Chess(1916) on current topic 12x16,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12109.
What was happening 3 years ago? To the day Directed Alice in 300 cells,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18564.
What was happening 1 year ago? To the day, rationale for NextChess,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24849.

George Duke wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 04:58 PM UTC:
What was happening 5 years ago? Lavieri explains the Travellers, that Christine Bagley-Jones currently mentions, 5 years ago to the day,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12190; and
Black's Xorix Shogi by Duniho interpretation, 5 years ago to the day,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12204.
What was happening 3 years ago?  3 years ago to the day, more on the Turk automaton computer facsimile/fraud, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18594.
What was happening 1 year ago? 1 year ago, more or less, Muller's scepticism here of Chess Different Armies, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24856, underwent conversion later upon Spartan Chess. Also, exchange today of Knappen and Muller bears on this earlier precis in its part '2)', the one about entire armies and other about piece trade-offs.  /// Disclaimer: I rate well both Betza's C.D.A.(NextChess#30 provisional) and new Spartan of different two-king army versus fabulous f.i.d.e.

George Duke wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 04:59 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago? 10 years ago to the day went up Sergej Sirotkin's Espionage Chess, apparently all uncommented and fully deserving belated attention. [http://www.chessvariants.org/41.dir/espionage.html; http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=27144]

George Duke wrote on Thu, Jan 27, 2011 01:52 AM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago? 10 years ago to the day,
King's Progressive posting, http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/kingsprogressive.html.
What was happening 5 years ago? 5 years ago to the day were two highlights:  Navia Dratp in Gifford appraisal, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12281; or a now-thing-of-the-past design contest, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12283.
What was happening 3 years ago?
3 years more or less, women and Chess by Trenholme, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18602; and 3 years ago more or less, the Billiards Mutator aplenty,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18601***; and 3 year ago to the day, Capablanca Random castling, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18622.
What was happening 1 year ago?
1 year ago more or less, Gilman asks, ''Does anyone think I'm flogging a dead horse by terming the M&B12, Sextoranker+Ninjafiler compound Mule?'' 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24887.
1 year ago to the day, one of several NextChess rationales,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24894.
___________________________________/// *** Temporarily posted here: The starred comment says ''three-path'' for Billiards Queen. How can that be? For example, d7-c8-b7 and d7-c7-b7 and d7-e6-f5-g4-h3-g2-f1-e2-d3-c4-b5-a6-b7! 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20005

George Duke wrote on Sat, Jul 2, 2011 07:27 PM UTC:
What was happening 3 years ago? Three years ago to the day, Gilman points
to Wildebeest's reverse symmetry:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20005. And Muller to the logic of Octopus: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20010.
What was happening 5 years ago? Five years ago to the day, Lavieri on Chess/Soccer: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=14334.
What was happening 9 years ago to the day? Nelson on Rule Zero, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=836, and Betza and Lawson on PASGL312, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=829.

George Duke wrote on Sun, Jul 3, 2011 08:49 PM UTC:
What was happening 3 years ago? Three years ago to the day, Hutnik on
variantist versus the World,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20039, and this reviewer on Lasker/Capa reform,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20038.
What was happening 5 years ago? Five years ago to the day, Lavieri notes ratings:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=14342.
What was happening 6 years ago? Six years ago to the day, Schatz on learning curve, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=10442, and correction from Hamburg: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=10443.

Glenn Nicholls wrote on Mon, Jul 4, 2011 02:14 PM UTC:
I was under the impression that Lasker suggested reversing the initial
positions of the Knights and Bishops, not Capablanca.  Can someone please
confirm which of these two suggested this.

George Duke wrote on Tue, Jul 5, 2011 11:50 PM UTC:
Nine years ago to the day, Betza tries fine-tuning Rule Zero, which appears in Aronson's Mad Scientist among many others for efficient wording, because just saying 'rule zero' stipulates several paragraphs,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=850, and
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=851, responding to Knappen.
What was happening 8 years ago? Eight years ago to the day, Hexichess,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=3720, and
Half Chess, different from Betza's mutator,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=3719.
Seven years ago to the day, Tunnel Shogi (re-)orientations from such as capture switch of sides explained,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=6584, a year before the update further clarifies.
What was happening 4 years ago? Four years ago to the day, the checkers
variant Emergo,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=17187.
What was happening 3 years ago? Three years ago to the day, Falcon programming algorithm, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20077, and cynicism about OrthoChess ratings, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20076.

George Duke wrote on Wed, Jul 6, 2011 05:17 PM UTC:
Nine years ago to the day, Betza on Feeble,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=867, and Lawson on PASGL 312, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=866. What was happening 8 years ago? Eight years ago to the day: Mercurial Chess
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=3730,
Outback http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=3736, and Schatz's Duel Chess
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=3734. What was happening 7 years ago? Seven years ago to the day, Navia Drapt, which has 113 other comments, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=6594.
What was happening 4 years ago? Four years ago to the day, 72 Capa variants, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=17193. Also four years ago to the day, no legal moves even of Pawn, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=17194 (The Neanderthal and Aurignacian co-habitors of earth can only looke at the grid and hold the stones and wonder).

Derek Nalls wrote on Thu, Jul 7, 2011 02:12 PM UTC:
Any chance of getting editorial intervention to stop and delete this
thread.  It is cluttering-up the new comment board.  Any significance would
be of a purely superstitious nature.  I just don't care what was being
written exactly 1-3-5-10 years ago and I doubt anyone else does (except
George Duke).

Joe Joyce wrote on Thu, Jul 7, 2011 02:24 PM UTC:
Derek, actually, I find George's forays into history rather interesting. I
truly believe we need a historian here, to remind us of what has gone
before, or introduce it for some, even if only to balance people like me,
who are newcomers to this area.

George Duke wrote on Thu, Jul 7, 2011 04:56 PM UTC:
Schatz quoted from 8 years ago is playing the same Duel Chess, not very well
known, at Game Courier right now! Schatz's profound learning curve comment at Attendance Chess from 6 years ago happens to be his last one made here identifiable. On Capa versus Lasker's switching Bishop
and Knight, Nicholls asks of, besides Reti 'Modern Ideas in Chess', the
other likely source would have been the section in 'ECV'(1994) on
Capablanca Chess. Please provide any more information who actually chiefly re-introduced it in modern times since there is a lag of up to 100 years after A. Alexandre in 1820s.

George Duke wrote on Mon, Jul 25, 2011 11:19 PM UTC:
One year ago, Cannibal/Absorption Chess,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=26150.
Three years ago,  Fairy-Max match suggests perhaps Rook 5.0 to Falcon 4.9, on a par
with Bishop-Knight slight disparity:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20213.
Five years ago, Mir Chess,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=14572.
Six years ago, the 3-D King, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=10612.
Seven years ago, Chaining Chess, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=6732.
Eight years ago, Michael Nelson on Maxima, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=3923.
And nine years ago, what other ''-mosts''?
Http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=942.

George Duke wrote on Mon, Aug 1, 2011 05:23 PM UTC:
One year ago, Frolov's Bughouse cvs,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=26214.
Six years ago, is castling always understood?, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=10661, and tour to a 't', http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=10662.
Seven years ago, Stalemate a win? Paulowich questions millennially, 
 http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=6813, and a 2-D Unicorn of different colour than 3-D Raumschach's, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=6808.
Nine years ago, the 4 3-D Einhorn bindings, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=1004.

George Duke wrote on Tue, Oct 25, 2011 07:41 PM UTC:
What was happening 3 years ago? Concrete designs,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20974.
4 years ago, Chessmaster,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18202.
5 years ago, Fighting Kings, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=15471.
10 years ago, Ultima, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=229.

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