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You miss my meaning of 'paradigm'. I meant it in a far larger sense than in chess variants. I meant that the future of man and of what will succeed man will bear little resemblance to the present. I think people should play the variants that interest them now and not worry about future-proofing chess because that cannot be done. If people play and discuss the games they find interesting the future will work itself out. IAGO chess does not seem to add anything to the discussion; it seems to me to be largely a matter of classification of extant chess variant ideas, something I find unnecessary.