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.
