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Radical Chess (deleted). Link to website of commercial chess variant on 8 by 8 board with 16 types of pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Michael Nelson wrote on Thu, Jun 10, 2004 02:04 PM UTC:Poor ★

I echo the previous comment about the game itself.

As for the image, I deem it to be soft porn. I say this as someone who
occasionaly chooses to view 'adult' images--but I don't want my kids to
do so while looking for CV's. Please remove the link.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 12:33 AM UTC:

Just calling it soft porn might encourage people to go look at it, as I did, for example. The woman is wearing shorts and a swimsuit top, and the only quasi-pornographic thing about her in the picture is the suggestive writing on her top and her stomach. The only other thing about the picture that is suggestive of porn is that the clown-faced man standing behind her needs a bra. Personally, I would have been quite happy to never see this picture. This is one of those times when I would just like to erase part of my memory. The least I can do is warn others that the picture isn't worth looking at.

Jared McComb wrote on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 02:31 AM UTC:

Hmmm...  Fergus Duniho wants to see hairy men in bras...  ;P

I second the idea that the link be removed.

Hans Bodlaender wrote on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 06:55 AM UTC:

I've removed the link. You can only go to the webpage now via the comment
system..

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 04:11 PM UTC:

It seems a side effect of what Hans has done is that the comments for this
page are also showing up only in the comment system.

I don't want to see hairy men in bras. It's just that if I must see a
picture of this guy, I would rather that he not be topless. While my
interest in topless people does not extend to men, the sight of a topless
man can differ in degrees of unpleasantness, and the sight of this guy was
very unpleasant. Imagine what Krusty the Clown would look like as a real
person without a shirt on.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 04:18 PM UTC:

I suppose my disgust with the picture may also have something to do with my general hatred of clowns. I tend to regard clowns as evil, and this guy looks especially like an evil clown. The Joker, as in Batman's most infamous foe, is my paradigm for what a clown is like.

Michael Nelson wrote on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 10:58 PM UTC:

A personal apology to Fergus--I should have said 'very poor quality soft core porn: if you like porn you won't like this but you still won't want your kids to see it.'

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Jun 12, 2004 01:19 AM UTC:Poor ★

I don´t want read more about this topic, neither miscelaneous things around it. Have someone some new interesting discussions about Chess Variants?

Charles Gilman wrote on Fri, Jun 18, 2004 07:02 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

The only trouble is the names, which are hard to remember for those of us who are not tank/ship/plane spotters. If presented as Quarter/Half/Nearly/Full followed by normal linepiece names, and the usual ungulate names of the oblique leapers, the game would be clearer to Chess Variant enthusiasts.

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