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What was happening 10 years ago to the day?

http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/n_europe.html,
one of new designer Charles Gilman's first CVs, at least among his first
dozen, after he said perusing whether 3-d Chess had ever been done.

Also ten years ago, Fibonacci: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffmove.dir/fibonacci.html

What was happening 10 years ago to the day?

http://www.chessvariants.org/dpieces.dir/maxima/maxima.html,  Maxima,
cousin of Ultima.  

Maxima by Venezuelan mathematician Roberto Lavieri has three possible win
conditions.  The Mage, as griffion or Gryphon, or several other spellings is first used over 700 years ago in Spanish Grande Acedrex, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/acedrex.html.

What was happening 10 years ago to the day?

Nine Queens:
http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/nine-queen_chess.html (compare to Berserker's ten Rooks earlier, http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/contest84/battlechieftan.html).

And ten years ago to the day Falcon poem fifteen: http://www.chessvariants.org/fiction.dir/poems/chess_morality_xv.html,
including what the Bishop says, 

"They think their order's not reached final stand...."

What was happening 10 years ago to the day?

http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/infinite.html.

http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/bird.html.

What was happening ten years ago to the day?

http://www.chessvariants.org/incinf.dir/bario.html.  Now all but forgotten,
at least temporarily, Bario received fifty comments in the first ten days it appeared:  http://www.chessvariants.org/index/listcomments.php?itemid=Bario.  Author Alex has made only this one rules-set, interpreted from German journal about 1999 (the same year as other current-comment game Pi).

What was happening ten years ago to the day? 
http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/caliph.html, 
Caliph and Carpenter, http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/carpentr.html, by Charles Gilman. Over the next five or seven years Charles would
become the most prolific designer of all time, even more productive than
Boyer or Betza, the previous leaders.  All three maintained quality, no
philosophy of design for its own sake (like in my own facetious '91.5 Trillion
CVs').  What is amazing about Gilman's is the number of newly-invented
piece-types, over 1000. In contrast, I can think of several prolificists of
over 20 CVs who never invented a new piece.* Actually Caliph came about from
Hedden's, as the brief above shows, but Carpenter is one Charles Gilman's 1200 or 1500 new piece-types. 

Also happening ten years ago to the day Morality XVI "Body of Chess."  http://www.chessvariants.org/fiction.dir/poems/chess_morality_xvi.html. This week happens to be one for a papal encyclical on environment; there have averaged one Catholic encyclical a year the last 300 years.

*It is not at all necessary to have new piece-type for excellent CV, examples being Philosophers Chess, Eurasian Chess, Big Board, Mastodon, Three Player, Schoolbook to name a few, as well as mechanism CVs like Extinction Chess and Hostage Chess -- no new p-ts any of those. Charles just undertakes to name or invent every concept left; it started about ten years ago when searching for 3D chess forms and finding CVPage.  He must think now it's his obligation as countryman to do what Dawson did for fairy problems, to fairy pieces.

What was happening ten years ago to the day?  Extra Move Chess:
http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/extramove.html.  Then last year Paul Bonham writing for Chessbase made a copycat in Option Chess probably ignorant of Extra Move: http://en.chessbase.com/post/option-chess-by-paul-bonham.   It's a legitimate subvariant  but basically evidence of bad manners not to do a little background check what went before.  Chessbase as a whole and F.I.D.E. as a force are ignorant of CVs with only half a dozen on its pages besides Fischer Random Chess.  It has been spelled out they the obsolete Fundamentalists even censor their own history, like when and why Castling came about or what was the weak power of the Queen for 1000 years.  But set off against original Extra Move, the Option Chess article shows
even their fumbling-in-the-dark interest to counter Computer dominance someday of games.  One solution is to change the rules ongoing within play a la Betza May 2001: http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/manyrules.html; with Many Rules in force, please check out Betzan distinction between pictorial Checkmate and functional Checkmate.