George Duke wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 05:32 PM UTC:
It comes as a surprise what CVs mean to other participants unless there is
some commonality. Slider is spider in 8 directions. Leaper is creeper in
etymological descriptive child's play. Not everything thought up deserves
the light of day. Martin Gardner wrote 25 years ago, ''Since we can
invent bizarre chessmen that move according to any specific set of rules,
the range of quadraphage-type games obviously is unlimited.'' Squares are
infinite, and pieces are infinite. CVPage never did its job to find
which-other taxonomy may help more. Each piece can be a piece-type category
unto itself, so classes are infinite too, like boards. The more
specific, the fewer members -- dilemma of categorization. Taxonomy is
another game, classification by geometry, having utility more organizable
than word-games, but less so than star-types or biological kingdoms, a
middle ground. Super-taxonomy would account for history and complementarity
too. The base is not formalism, let alone constructivism, but platonism.
These things are real, real as the nose on your face. Once a construction
establishes, it obliterates a thousand others. After this comment the
particular will always take precedence. In fact, that is a new definition
of Chess: amplification of the specific instance by a leap of faith for
reasons of...for reasons...for Reason, leave it at that. Faith in Reason.