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George Duke wrote on Sat, Jul 12, 2008 09:15 PM UTC:
[Anyone confused, Muller is abruptly referring to my 22.August.2007 never brought up since with small error.] A larger issue is that there are over 3000 CVPage separate write-ups for games and 10,000 to 20,000 different Chess pieces in CVPage alone within the write-ups. Who is familiar with as many as 200, a mere 10% of them? As often said, anyone can invent a new CV or a new Chess piece. Have RN and BN been established to stand out from 10,000 others? By what criteria? Certainly they suffer terribly, the Centaur and Champion, for having been horrendously overused. Want a CV of one's own? Just sketch out a new Carrera array. Most variantists get to point they find Ce. and Ch. unappealing and try to avoid them in new designs. They are okay, the Carrera Centaur and Champion, I play them extensively in hundreds of Game Courier scores, no problem. There is of course the error about mating in that Comment this old thread from summer 2007. It means of course within 3x3, the small example that is sketched, not the larger boards. Within the 3x3 shown it is drawn game, as described, a very common technique in Fairy Chess Problems, used here to show the peculiar different interactions of RN and BN. Frankly, though I would say I find RN-BN rather awkward and unaesthetic, having been forced to learn their techniques for their ever-present uncreative popularity. To the contrary, probably most Grandmasters would find RN and BN considerably unlovely and reject them outright. Capablanca re-proposed them, and they institutionalized FIDE a couple years later(1920's), perhaps a connection. Credit Yasser Seirawan for having gone out on a limb, but notice that cautiously he does not introduce them to the board right away.

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