Check out Alice Chess, our featured variant for June, 2024.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
George Duke wrote on Sat, Aug 23, 2014 03:11 PM UTC:
What was happening 100 years ago?
http://www.openchessbooks.org/reti-mic/chapter6/reform_in_chess.html. Well
91 years ago, actually 100 years ago because Reti is (reti)-reiterating
Lasker from 100 years ago in Chapter 6 of year 1923 'Modern Ideas in Chess'.
Lasker friend of Einstein and fellow German mathematics professor.

Oh not one hundred years ago, today, 

http://en.chessbase.com/post/stalemate-the-long-and-the-short-of-it-2.

They think they have a stalemate or something, or metaphorically win by Stalemate, but they lost, lost as soundly as Kasparov this time and that 20 yrs. ago or thereabouts 17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov.
 to not reform but revolution of some kind.

In the over-refined decadence of Simpleminded Chess, they rerun Stalemate as Win almost as often as falsifying reinvention of compounds Rook-Knight and Bishop-Knight* -- suppressing its 400-year-old origin in west Mediterranean Carrera's, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/carrera.html.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1693032.  That's Carlsen-Anand from 2012, where does Black go wrong?
_____________________________________________________________

///*For example shouldn't well-known 10-yr.-old Seirawan Chess (http://www.seirawanchess.com/ if it upheld intellectual honesty have mentioned Capablanca and Bird and Carrera and Reshevsky using the same 
"new" pieces before today?

Edit Form
Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Avoid Inflammatory Comments
If you are feeling anger, keep it to yourself until you calm down. Avoid insulting, blaming, or attacking someone you are angry with. Focus criticisms on ideas rather than people, and understand that criticisms of your ideas are not personal attacks and do not justify an inflammatory response.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.