George Duke wrote on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 04:37 PM UTC:
In trying hand at organizing CVPage Track One material, potential OrthoChess replacement, precisely involved is
matter of selecting the right Mutators or piece(s) for complexification.
Guiding factors have to be aesthetics, precedent, and the feel of Chess.
What is needed is like Brainking or Game Courier, place for humans to
play, attracting more people, as Duniho laments is needed. That becomes
matter for public relations to some extent. Proliferation itself, the logic or the illogic, in CVs is no small part of the equation. An obvious model might be Game Courier, near at hand. But let's not personalize and instead call our system ''PCO'' for Play Chess Variants Online. The following is very elementary but has never been stated or maybe grasped. Suppose initially there are 40 Presets and 400 completed scores each year. Then on the average each CV is played 10 times a year. Five years later there are still 400 completed scores each year, but now 400 Presets. Each CV gets played once a year on the average. For more players, the target group is not professional chess players, but dedicated recreationalists. What they learn in CV-play can make them better, more intelligent people for other activities. They ought to be playing chess derivatives for their own good. Does having so many choices unsorted tend to encourage or deter?