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In a correspondence, L. Lynn Smith once wrote to me that some inventors lacked imagination, that all they ever introduced were 'variants of Chess' instead of 'chess variants' in the sense of infinite possibilities. Unfortunately, if the only mental limitation the people you had trouble with was a lack of imagination, they should be pleased for someone talented or insightful to happen into their midst who has imagination. Apparently, quite the contrary! I think people who have devoted an extreme amount of effort into trying to master a specific game usually have an overwhelming tendency to feel threatened by anyone who recommends ANY rule change, regardless of its merits, because its complex ramifications would change the game throughout and eradicate most/some of what they have learned.
I posted my very modest Flexible Chinese Chess idea to a Yahoo Xiangqi
group and the owner threw me out! I also posted it to the Vietson discussion
group, where I use to play Xiangqi. I wasn't dispelled but the message
was removed.
What's going on? How come they regard this little idea as so dangerous
and destructive? They seem to view this little enhancement as a blasphemy.
So I begin to wonder whether many chess players are actually religious chess
worshippers, and that's what causes the exaggerated reactions. This is
where religion has gone, into games! They are chess and Xiangqi believers,
not players.
/Mats
group and the owner threw me out! I also posted it to the Vietson discussion
group, where I use to play Xiangqi. I wasn't dispelled but the message
was removed.
What's going on? How come they regard this little idea as so dangerous
and destructive? They seem to view this little enhancement as a blasphemy.
So I begin to wonder whether many chess players are actually religious chess
worshippers, and that's what causes the exaggerated reactions. This is
where religion has gone, into games! They are chess and Xiangqi believers,
not players.
/Mats
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Excommunicated,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication. Heresy, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MLchessmoralityx. Schism, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSarmiesoffaith4.