Comments by GeorgeDuke

Here is the next move in ChessRabble.  White plays 2)b c5-f2;  g6 FALCON,
                                       22 pts.
8  *H___E___D___G___E___R___ ___*      Black plays 2)...n-b7; e1 KING
7    ___n___ ___ ___ ___O___ ___       27 pts.
6    __- ___ ___ ___ ___O___F___       ('ka' appears in Scrabble(tm)
5    ___ ___ ___ ___ ___K___A___       dictionaries, an essential 2lw)
4    ___ __~ ___ ___ ___ ___L___       [Caps are actual lettered tiles;
3    ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___C___        small are chess pieces of which
2    ___ ___ ___ __- ___b___O___        only four can appear: see Rules
1   *___ ___ ___ ___K___I___N___G*      in the first thread-Comment] 
    a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h      
                                     Notice that chess pieces are moved
or dropped strategically to prevent easy play of words for high points.

Anand wins. A fitting follow-up to World Chess Championship in nearby
Mexico?  Chess: Che: Que?  Tuesday 9 October is fortieth anniversary of the death of heroic-thinker Argentina-born Che Guevara(1928-1967), avid chess player who played in tournaments from age 12. Cuba marks the occasion today with a gathering of 3000 people(1500 boards) playing Chess, Guevara's favourite game.  Great WC#3 Jose R. Capablanca (1888-1942), Cuban of course, is one of three(or four with Morphy) western hemisphere WCCs. Argentine GM Miguel Najdorf (1910-1997) died in Spain after fulfilling a desire to watch a last Chess tournament there. Najdorf in his career played Chess with Che Guevara, Castro, Krushchev, Winston Churchill, the Shah of Iran,  Juan Peron. Readers of Najdorf's chess column in Argentinan newspaper Clarin once could also study a chess problem contributed by chess-enthusiast John Paul II. Guevara's traversing Latin America by motorcycle in 1950's, chronicled in 'The Motorcycle Diaries', has precedent in the book 'My Hike' from late 1920's of Argentine adventurers, one of whom succeeded in hiking  from south of Buenos Aires to New York in somewhat over a year.  Cuban schoolchildren in daily pledge recite 'We will be like Che!' Like FIDE's motto 'Gens una sumus', it is appropriate that their 'unification' Champion be equally determined in the other 'one'(Western) of two hemispheres.

World Chess Championship was just held at Mexico City. From the other end
of Latin America, in the 1920's the Argentine adventurer who wrote the
book about his hike(no motorized help whatsoever) from near Buenos Aires
to New York took just over two years not one(two competitors died en route and others dropped out). It was popular in North America too then to have cross-continent road and running races both(50 miles a day L.A. to N.Y. over couple of months). Che Guevara and Miguel Najdorf were both avid chess players from Argentina. What other recent chess connection to Buenos Aires? Of course Fischer Random Chess, the ingenious locale chosen by Bobby Fischer to announce in June 1996 his version of randomized initial positions actually invented by the 1820's. He still propounds it to stress talent over memorization. GM Najdorf died in 1997, the other of the two leading western hemisphere Grandmasters since Capablanca. Someone may know whether Najdorf attended any of the Argentine ceremonies starting FRChess(Chess960).

[Betza's citation in the first line EOTW's inventor answered our Comment, the game's only Comment, three years ago] Still keying off Chess with Inverse Capture, we find correlates within Betza. What is outstanding about Ralph's articles is that there is never a hodgepodge of elements but a consistent theme. In Simple Inverse Capture, all the standard pieces act the way of capturing inversely. In Falling Off, every capture causes a consistent effect too, different from Inverse Capture. Here there is no capture as such. A 'capture' causes a 'careening' one step at a time in one direction toward and over the edge.  Here any number of pieces may be on the same square. In fact, moving a friendly piece onto its square stops the careening. What other CV permits multiple occupancy? The term 'Momentum' comes from EOTW which Ralph courteously credits. In the old days we would respect and reference our sources.  The actual Rules here need to  be more specific about the directionality of careening-capture, as Ralph acknowledges. Also whether a second, or double, capture changes direction of the careener or speeds its careening. ''Careening pieces cannot make their normal moves'' is a crux of the concept. We think that Falling Off would be the 'great game' Ralph claims on 10x10 or even 8x10.