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Invented in the 1480s, advanced Shatranj added the strong Queen and in
Italian was called Regina Rabiosa and translated that way at least to
French. They, and we, continue playing it occasionally today. ''Mediaeval
ingenuity had more commonsense than we do today.'' What they invented
lasted 500 years until the Internet and until Fischer random chess.
  After Regina Rabiosa swept across Italy, Columbus first set sail
easterly-wind-aided to begin to save/enslave America. Shakespeare (who
describes chess-playing at the american west indies in 'The Tempest')
and Elizabeth were yet to be born two generations later, and Newton at the
sesquicentennial of ''modern'' OrthoChess64.  Still called ''modern'' for having two-step Pawn and regular Bishop too, but really
about the only remaining cultural artifact from the Middle Ages of any
science or art (please try to name another one intact). The popular game Chess competed with back then and replaced was Rithmomacia:
http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/mebben.ryth.html.
 The above adverb ''occasionally'' is used advisedly: like Stepford Wives, or like fundamentalist religionists, a million go through the motions a million times a year at
enablers like Chessbase etc.  Seen one, seen them all in each opening 
played  at least the umpteenth time by rote to move 20 and many to 30 now. Tom Wolfe's scoffing metaphor for the whole Internet, ''click, click, click,'' as like the local
retiree knitting circle (he wanted people to read more books
proportionately), should best only apply to f.i.d.e. OrthoChess64 habitues by our bias within Next Chesses, since each and all of our 21 CVs nominated and ranked so far there would be better than that particular conventional one. The concept of reality is that Next Chesses exist and ought to be determined, whether or not they achieve immediate popularity.