Derek Nalls wrote on Sat, Jul 21, 2007 06:53 PM UTC:
'I hope the posting I made did not, in any way, show disrespect towards
your opinion, research, nor criteria for choosing the opening setup you
did.'
No. Definitely not. My stoic, argumentative, hardened, informational
writing style has unintentionally and unnecessarily created some
cyber-enemies for me over the years that I never wanted at all and never
personally disliked.
Actually, I am somewhat relieved that you were not personally offended and
publicly hostile over the implication within my work (select CRC analysis
tool) that Schoolbook Chess is not fault-free due to its exclusion from
the select 48 games I analyzed in detail (along with all other king &
archbishop centered positions).
It is very significant that I did not see my way clear to devising
anything like the select CRC analysis tool until you first devised a
couple of simple rules for paring-down candidate CRC positions to a
manageable number.
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''Colorbound', for me, has a very specific meaning. I use Betza's
meaning for colorbound: A piece that, for the entire game, always has to
be on the same color. A bishop. for example, that starts on the white
squares will always be on the white squares for the entire game, since it
can not make a move going from the white squares to the black squares.
Neither the queen nor archbishop are colorbound; both pieces can reach any
square on a blank board in two or three moves.'
Yes, my usage of color-bound in association with the queen and archbishop
was too vague and deserves clarification. To be sure, I agree that the
queen and archbishop are NOT color-bound pieces. Still, they will
contribute to the 'color-bound pieces imbalance' if both of them start
the game upon the same dark or light spaces. This is due to the fact that
both composite pieces contain, in part, color-bound bishops. That nuance
was absent in my explanation. It is difficult to be concise without
losing vital completeness and accuracy.
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It is debatable that the rating system used with the select CRC analysis
tool is too strict. Admittedly, it was designed to detect faults of
various importance within the vast majority of CRC positions presented to
it thereby eliminating all except one to a few.
