Well, we teach children more and more complicated things, and we have more and more complicated machines to teach us the grand master level. So a 10x10 variant with 24 pieces is really no effort. That is not to be said for increasingly large variants. The point of this discussion was that some games exist and they should look at each other in order to better themselves.
My introduction of the griffin and aanca was somewhat arbitrary, they were the first pieces that came to mind when asking myself about non-queen major rider pieces so I wouldn't repeat the archbishop and Marshall in the other variant. The griffin and aanca are, yes difficult to use pieces.
I think orthodox chess should be always for kids but larger board variants should enter the repertoire of adults.
My main fear is that chess playing actually is a craft for the machines and for humans we should keep hold off games like Dixit for example. That's not an issue, just something we should be aware of.
To put it in perspective why the dichotomy between homo sapiens and machines. I have a permanent debate with a friend of mine about human intelligence vs machine intelligence. Him, a Dune fan, thinks we should train ourselves like the mentats in order to better ourselves. I think we should base ourselves on robots, eventually, when tech allows it become such beings.
This dichotomy is the seed of my 2 objectives I stated in the beginning of this discussion :
1. What is the next evolution of chess
2. How computer chess should evolve
On the less discussed second matter I think chess variants engines should provide software companies what FORMULA1 GP provides automotive companies. I think variants solving the two matters will be very different, especially in size, but also the aanca or the zebra can't seem awkward to a machine, it's just a move.
On the matter of contributing to a variant that could be part, among others at the next evolution of chess, today I failed, but all hope is not lost. With all risk involved I'll head towards larger board size, for already grandmaster adults and not kids.
Well, we teach children more and more complicated things, and we have more and more complicated machines to teach us the grand master level. So a 10x10 variant with 24 pieces is really no effort. That is not to be said for increasingly large variants. The point of this discussion was that some games exist and they should look at each other in order to better themselves.
My introduction of the griffin and aanca was somewhat arbitrary, they were the first pieces that came to mind when asking myself about non-queen major rider pieces so I wouldn't repeat the archbishop and Marshall in the other variant. The griffin and aanca are, yes difficult to use pieces.
I think orthodox chess should be always for kids but larger board variants should enter the repertoire of adults.
My main fear is that chess playing actually is a craft for the machines and for humans we should keep hold off games like Dixit for example. That's not an issue, just something we should be aware of.
To put it in perspective why the dichotomy between homo sapiens and machines. I have a permanent debate with a friend of mine about human intelligence vs machine intelligence. Him, a Dune fan, thinks we should train ourselves like the mentats in order to better ourselves. I think we should base ourselves on robots, eventually, when tech allows it become such beings.
This dichotomy is the seed of my 2 objectives I stated in the beginning of this discussion :
1. What is the next evolution of chess
2. How computer chess should evolve
On the less discussed second matter I think chess variants engines should provide software companies what FORMULA1 GP provides automotive companies. I think variants solving the two matters will be very different, especially in size, but also the aanca or the zebra can't seem awkward to a machine, it's just a move.
On the matter of contributing to a variant that could be part, among others at the next evolution of chess, today I failed, but all hope is not lost. With all risk involved I'll head towards larger board size, for already grandmaster adults and not kids.
Thanks for your time!