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Larry Smith feels in his own words ''projectile vomiting and extreme
migraines'' about the first of the four fundamental chess units, RNBF, that he calls the ''piece that shall not be named'' in two comments 7. and
8.November.2008. That once-in-a-half-millennium Chessic new departure by obvious consensus -- since no one now contradicts my claims -- called phoenix, falcon, spider, scorpion, horus, whatever, all considered on and off and used informally. The relevance is that Smith considers here a so-called planar
version of three-path Falcon, one that would be grossly restricted in its ability. Earlier Betza tried to fit Falcon into
Crooked Bishop and Crooked Rook schema, and in each case of Smith and Betza there are legitimate similarities worth considering of their counter-examples to normal Falcon. Although I had participated in votes (Bodlaender used to email ''you were the first to vote'') and read every page since 1996, I skipped entirely the first comment system, and my very first comment 1.August.2003 was somehow oddly a day or two after Betza's very last. So I never could challenge his compounding of those two Crooked ones to reach Camel and Zebra squares. Betza just flat-out disappeared altogether suddenly, saying he was going to watch baseball the rest of the summer. Adios said Betza, after a thousand comments of his and 200 articles and 35 years of CVing, and he meant it. Smith adds: ''I took a sledgehammer to my computer, burned it, stirred the ashes and burned it again.   I've also made an appointment with my neurologist to have excised those brain cells which continue to store data about the game. I will now go bang my head against the wall.'' Fine dilution of quality of commenting still remaining verbatim by standards of only last fall.