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Joyce started term Next Chess ten years ago, so that fits. Gothic Chess, like Schoolbook or Grotesque or 20 others, is form of Carrera's 400 year old, all now under "Capablanca Chess" for convenience, and the trade show venue describes activity of Gothic's people. Kevin's current phrase, <p> "Unless there can be a chess variant that is surprising computer-resistant..." <p> suggests that branching factor is not only criterion at work. There may be some Rules or pieces that are difficult to program for. H.G. Muller says programming Queen or Falcon present same difficulty, that is not much for modern engines, but it could be that variously blockable Falcon (my bias) is not so easy. <p> If little Los Alamos 6x6 had been the old standard, it would be replaced by something bigger. And the mere fact OrthoChess is on little 8x8, and the other world CV types are 9x10 and 9x9, China and Japan, should be embarrassing to their GMs. That's why Stanley Random started 15 years ago calling f.i.d.e. "Simpleminded Chess" and now I do. For follow-up on topic what pieces or aesthetic CVs on 8x8 might be AI-resistant not yet mentioned, where non-CVs Arimaa and Go have now failed? Betzan List Chess is unaesthetic. (I have just been thinking about puzzlist Dudeney having had possible solution) <a href="http://www.chessvariants.com/43.dir/pocket-polypiece43.html">Polypiece</a> -- this suggestion originated with Betza and he has article "Polypiece" in which each piece changes its type every time it moves.