[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ][ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ][ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]Single Comment AnandvCarlsen13[Subject Thread] [Add Response] George Duke wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2013 04:18 PM UTC:Game 2: Draw in 25: http://www.chessbase.com/post/chennai-02-two-minor-victories-. Would Fischer Random Chess help? http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/fischer.html. Game 3: Draw in 51: http://www.chessbase.com/post/world-championship-anand-carlsen-live-no ************************************************* Chessbase currently exhibits Loyd problem far more exciting than the world championship: http://www.chessbase.com/post/chessbase-puzzles-loyd-s-steinitz-gambit. There the worst possible move to appearance, mates in Three! In fact, variant chess piece-types do make their way into Orthodox topics through problem themes, although Sam Loyd's problem above uses the six standard pieces strictly (Queen off-board). Orthodox bastion Chess Café in 1998 did run Tim Harding's http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz31.txt, which shows Transcendental Prelate and suggests other CV pieces. Would modest Free Castling reinvigorate as needed? Actually, what CVers might contribute is that the rationale should be: which is correct, fixed or variable Castling? That is, "Correct" in the same sense that the consensus has the modern Bishop right and proper and the mediaeval Elephant incorrect or at least less correct. "Elephant" of course is found in form of Chess the predecessor to OrthoChess: http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/shatranj.html.
Game 2: Draw in 25: http://www.chessbase.com/post/chennai-02-two-minor-victories-. Would Fischer Random Chess help? http://www.chessvariants.org/diffsetup.dir/fischer.html. Game 3: Draw in 51: http://www.chessbase.com/post/world-championship-anand-carlsen-live-no ************************************************* Chessbase currently exhibits Loyd problem far more exciting than the world championship: http://www.chessbase.com/post/chessbase-puzzles-loyd-s-steinitz-gambit. There the worst possible move to appearance, mates in Three! In fact, variant chess piece-types do make their way into Orthodox topics through problem themes, although Sam Loyd's problem above uses the six standard pieces strictly (Queen off-board). Orthodox bastion Chess Café in 1998 did run Tim Harding's http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz31.txt, which shows Transcendental Prelate and suggests other CV pieces. Would modest Free Castling reinvigorate as needed? Actually, what CVers might contribute is that the rationale should be: which is correct, fixed or variable Castling? That is, "Correct" in the same sense that the consensus has the modern Bishop right and proper and the mediaeval Elephant incorrect or at least less correct. "Elephant" of course is found in form of Chess the predecessor to OrthoChess: http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/shatranj.html.