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David Pritchard says in Introduction to 1994 ECV that, were Queen a Marshall(RN) these 511 years, OrthoChess would have been none the worse. Wrong. It just shows DP did not know everything anymore than Ralph Betza does. Strong defense of Queen over poor RN takes an essay, as being done in our ongoing 'FatallyFlawedMC' thread topic. 'Replace' Orthodox Chess is just semantic distinction(not like *replace* gas lighting with electricity): anyone can surmise (as probably even Kramnik would) that by 2050 people will play OrthoChess percentagewise far less frequently to other CVs, the way we play a little Shatranj here in 2007 but not much. In mid-1990's we played Falcon in lieu of Queen on 8x8 a lot and consider it about as good as OrthoChess but no better. [Preset Jeremy?] But the downward spiral of 8x8 size itself led us deliberately to omit 8x8 altogether from Patentings of Falcon. So, in sort of benevolent loophole, anyone can use Falcon on 8x8, along with such as JJoyce BentHero he mentions. In fact, please do so on 8x8, as Abdul-Rahman Sibahi and GWDuke have done in recent Presets FC-ES and FC-KnightsEdge. Historically, Rook and Knight are the oldest moves, are they not? So, some of the logic of couple recent remarks of JJoyce about Knight were off the mark.