George Duke wrote on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 06:16 PM UTC:
Before extreme CVs themselves under proliferation were becoming the butt of
jokes, OrthoChess was the only butt of them. CVs were inspiring 20-15-10
years ago and Gridlock was inspiring satire 5 yrs. ago. You remember in the
1990s mainstreamers saying uppitily all the time OrthoChess 64 was
sancrosanct. Change nothing in FIDE 64, and we laughed. People were
brainwashed then, so I would hear that in the street and at the market. He
might be Catholic and OrthoChess at the same time. She might be Jewish and
OrthoChess at the same time. So they laughed, before FRC and CVPage. FIDE
GMs sanctimoniously intoned 10 -- and 50 -- years ago that there are as
many Orthodox Chess game scores possible as atoms in universe. After FRC
was announced in 1996 by Fischer, we heard that 10^80 atoms business even
more often. Actually, GMs know only the referent, not the approximate value
10^80. These are chess people who giddily would not know Centaur(BN) and
Champion(RN) are not 20th-century innovations. These are Chessists half of
whom would not know that their transitional Chess-64 evolved from the weak-Queen version only centuries back.
Now this number is more than #atoms in Universe, 2^2^2^2^2, with the convention in ladder of exponents right to left. 2^2^2^2^2 looks innocent, but it far exceeds # atoms everywhere. 2^270 is beyond atoms in Universe by one order of magnitude. 65536 is 2^2^2^2 done properly. And 2^65536 is overflow in your hand calculator. You may have to use several parentheses to get the computer to do math and not just calculation. A sneeze could be said to have millions of millions of permutations (projectile sneezing...) In the time elapsed for any sneeze, you come up with a new CV, or one OrthoChess score, take your pick (euphemism), computer aided.
Or instead of sneezing (euphemism), do something worthwhile: PAINT BY NUMBERS, gained by thumbers, plain dry rummers, chained my hummers, pained by dumbers, feigned by mummers, quaintly chummers, lain-dry gummers, reigned-high drummers, brained by glummers, strained by slummers, rainy summers, sprained by bumblers, crane-pried stumblers, slain by dumpsters, pain-try tumblers, main-sty jumblers, taint by fumblers, plaint-wry rumblers, trained high jumpers, grain-high dumpers, gray ant by some burrs, grey auntie encumbers, sane tri-bumpers, stained-tie umbers, waned by humblers, twain bi-stumpers, saintly bummers, faintly slumbers, dainty plumbers, plane-high lumbers, ain't by crumbers. PAINT BY NUMBERS.
http://www.chessvariants.org/piececlopedia.dir/taxonomy.html
