George Duke wrote on Wed, Dec 18, 2013 04:57 PM UTC:
"Everyone to his own taste." In aftermath of Chennai, Draws 7 Wins 3,
clearly the founders codifying year 1924 Official Rules would not
anticipate computer-driven and Draw-ridden western Chess. Today boxed in
by dogmatism, one-trick ponies Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik or most any top
100 cannot tolerate even mention of 1990s Fischer Random Chess -- one mild
CV solution suppressed by censorship.
The narrow my-way-or-the-highway OrthoChess mentality removes their right
to historic legacy altogether, so the Proverbs and languages in the world
Chess inspires are responsibly inherited now by Chess variant pluriform
philosophy. This includes eastern Chess methods honoured too: Xiangqi and
Shogi variants.
Spanish: Variety is the spice of life:
http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/hanga_roa/hanga_roa.html.
French: Each to his own taste: http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/marseill.html.
Latin: Concerning tastes there can be no disputing: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MLvenatorchess. (Here are many reforms by same author: http://boardgames.zxq.net/chessvar.htm.)
Japanese: Ten men, ten colours: http://www.chessvariants.org/shogivariants.dir/taikyoku_english.html.
Arabic: Every person is free in his opinions: http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/tamerlane.html.
Russian: Every baron has his own special fantasty: http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/tyalie/shatra/shatrax.html.
Chinese: Let a thousand flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought
contend: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSxianghex.
That makes 8 ways to say, Everyone To His Own Taste.