Rich Hutnik wrote on Sat, Oct 11, 2008 04:35 AM UTC:
Ok, a few points from me:
1. I wish the Chess world would try to honor the World Mind Sports Games,
and no schedule the World Chess Championship in Europe, the same time the
World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) is going on. The WMSG is the closes the
table game, chess and chess variant community, has ever gotten to an event
being like the Olympics. If they had scheduled the World Chess
Championship in China right before the WMSG, that would work.
2. FIDE ortho-chess is nowhere near about to die. If people are upset
about that, well you had better get millions of players together and play
something else. If you don't, you aren't going the have things change.
And complaining FIDE should pick something else out, isn't going to change
it. At this point Speed Chess appears to be the successor to normal chess.
As the game plays out more, they will reduce the time players have on the
clock. That will buy a lot of time for them. The World Mind Sports Games
appears dominated by Speed Chess. Time constraints call for it being so.
Hey, on this last note, I should go into why Orthochess hangs on for as
long as it does. If you have a game you invested years into play, you
don't feel like totally dropping it to play something else. You would be
interested in expanding what you have and build on it, but not abandon it
completely.