Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To George Duke wrote on Thu, Oct 2, 2008 05:19 PM UTC:Hopefully Joyce will analyze Eurasian also as he did Modern and Mastodon. The three are held up to nominate as troika to co-bill for theoretical next chess. Joyce asks at end of Mastodon critique, ''Are there any general design principles coming out of all this that are or can be generally agreed upon?'' How about Pawns? OrthoPawn that developed with the New Chess of the 1500's needs no tampering. Two-step one time only and diagonal capture have no possible improvement. If there are ten ranks, the Pawn just logically gets three-step option too. Everyone can agree on that, neither Berolina nor Rococo Pawns necessary for any new and fixed alteration of F.I.D.E. standard 8x8. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID NextChess does not match any item.