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Interesting comments from Mark and Joe and David.  This morning, after reading Joe's 'FIDE piece' comment I submitted a candidate for a future Fide Chess replacement.  It uses an 8x8 board.  And, the Rooks and Bishops have been replaced  with two non-Fide pieces [Dragon Horse and Dragon King (2promoted Shogi pieces)] such that the Rooks can now move one space
diagonally (or their normal move) and the Bishops can do an orthogonal
move or their normal move.  At my chess club (which terminated in 2005)
many players were quick to accept Shogi in full form... so we know Fide
players can easily handle the two non-Fide pieces from Shogi.  Will this
new game catch on?  I doubt it.  The reason is that Fide Chess is pretty
much excellent as it is.  Also, the serious players have spent a lot of
time on book openings, studying with computers, etc.  I only created this
new game to show we can have a very very chess-like game on an 8x8 board
and replace a few Fide pieces.  Of course, it wipes out existing Chess
Openings.  Fischer Random Chess does that too.  And so will any variants
we come up with...  I don't think we are going to come up with the next
Fide chess.  I could be wrong...  but, that is just my opinion.  Still,
long ago there were some Shatranj players who thought their game would
never be replaced.  Best regards to all.