it seems quite odd to me that not many care about this topic, as it used to be a leading one on this website and I think with good reason.
In strengthening of my previous post here is an essay (although is titled research article the content does not seem to make it such a thing) of Daniel's Denett. It purpose os to raise a concern about meaningless philosophical endeavor. I think this heavily applies to chess variant design and as it goes a chess variant is the example in the article.
This is to say that we should aim for those variants that bring new meaning, not just crazy for the sake of crazy but consistently "good" as out of their "first principles" interesting higher truths emerge.
Hello again,
it seems quite odd to me that not many care about this topic, as it used to be a leading one on this website and I think with good reason.
In strengthening of my previous post here is an essay (although is titled research article the content does not seem to make it such a thing) of Daniel's Denett. It purpose os to raise a concern about meaningless philosophical endeavor. I think this heavily applies to chess variant design and as it goes a chess variant is the example in the article.
This is to say that we should aim for those variants that bring new meaning, not just crazy for the sake of crazy but consistently "good" as out of their "first principles" interesting higher truths emerge.