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Gary Gifford wrote on Sun, Apr 30, 2006 10:28 PM UTC:
Joe:  Thanks for the elaboration.  It clarifies things quite a bit.  As for
GO, I am familiar with it and am currently playing a game of it over the
internet.  But still, I would not consider the GO stones as chess pieces
any more than I would consider the 'X' and 'O' of tic-tac-toe to be
pieces.  The fact that GO pieces work well on a 19 x 19 board has no
signifigance to chess pieces.  I am inclined to agree with the opinion
that larger boards can more easily accomodate pieces with greater
mobility... and that multi-move turns are more at home on such boards...
as are larger numbers of different piece types.