Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To George Duke wrote on Mon, Feb 25, 2008 06:08 PM UTC:Vukcevich speech on future forms of Chess appears in 'Chess Life' October 1998. Vukcevich: ''Finally, Chess will be a completely different game in a decade or two. Sports only teaches you team play, but Chess can do much more for the soul of society. Those who have difficulty believing in the evolutionary connection of Chess to Backgammon should remember that Chess was once played with dice, that Shogi pieces are flat stones, and that birds came from dinosaurs.'' ''At that time, chessboards had only lines -- all squares were the same colour. Arabs introduced the checkered board to help their children learn the game, and the children soon found the Alfil piece too simple. The Alfil moved like a Bishop but only over two squares. With the checkered board it became easy to follow Alfil's motion over the entire diagonal, and it soon evolved into the modern Bishop.'' ''Where does this Chaos lead? Today mathematicians recognize that the likely outcome of any chaos is self-organization.'' -- Vukcevich Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID GM_Vukcevich does not match any item.