George Duke wrote on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 05:23 PM UTC:
Which of these 24 bifurcators are preferred,
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/bifurcation.htm (#1), the author and inventor
M. Winther has so far not specified. Likewise, Charles Gilman was asked which of his 200 CVs would be recommended for Next Chesses. Neither answered, understandably. The one is in the catbird seat for this Next Chess project, and the other has inherited from the vanished Betza towards being the premier variantist. It is
left for critics to determine whether to select Gilman's AltOrthHex --
which would be the only hexagonal chess -- or a Gilman four-player, or
rather just keep working through his 200 CVs for others. As with Bifurcators,
Schoolbook Chess (#10) represents the many subvariants of the original Carrera,
become Capablanca. It has also been remarked about Switching Chess' (#20) being a
multiple CV, or Mutator, able to apply widely in different mixes and sizes. Big Board (#6) has recent expedited Big Board form. Bifurcators were
originally nominated as Venator Chess, http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/venatorchess.htm; Venator is a bifurcation type modelled after Dawson's non-bifurcating Grasshopper,
http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/grasshopper.html. George Jeliss' ''All the King's Men,'' http://www.chessvariants.org/index/external.php?itemid=pcAlltheKingsMen, has at least four bifurcators, Asp, Eagle, Moose, Sparrow. They also all happen to be modified Grasshoppers, and the latter three are far weaker piece-types than the twenty-four of above Bifurcation article. No previous bifurcator is specifically embodied in starting array or rules-set. So they all apply now on both 68 and 80 squares. Flexible practice among CVers determines that in each case above, it is worthwhile to take the many subvariants as within purview of the essence of each same invention.
Final details of initial arrays and piece-movement modality are conveniently postponed whilst rationale and argument for the ongoing fundamental hierarchy continue to develop.