Comments by GlennNicholls

Thanks for the reply, but I don't have this sort of knowledge and I'm far too busy to sort all this out.  The page is readable with effort and so if someone wants to read this page it is down to them to make the effort I'm afraid - the page has been up long enough.  If you or anyone else can tidy it up without further confusing the page, fine, otherwise I'll leave it as it is. Nobody should change things that mess up other Persons' pages without letting everyone know first in simple language.

The layout of pages setup by using MS Word documents has changed and has resulted in something of a mess for my pages.  What has happened?.  Can this be put right?  I would very much appreciate an answer.

Of course, at the very top level of Chess, the loss of a Rook or even a minor piece is usually decisive.

What has happened to the editing of one's pages and the appearance of those already on the site.  Things seem to have got into a bit of a mess.

Anatoly Karpov has stated (and he should know given his playing strength and achievments) that he thinks ELO ratings have become subject to inflation and IMHO I think he is right.  Bobby Fischer's peak rating was 2785 in July 1972 and this is IMHO the highest anyone has so far in reality achieved.  This means, at least in my opinion, that no-one in reality has yet achieved a rating of 2800.

I, too, have a CVP reference page submission awaiting clearance.

Thank-you for your interesting opinions Mr Duke.

But, if I may say, these remarks are mostly your individual opinions and some of these would not, I think, be shared by all, including myself.

The point I am making is that of popularity and I can see no other games or pieces that have made such headway on this site compared to the three games and their pieces I've mentioned.  Shogi I have no real knowledge of and so cannot comment on, but it seems (and I may be wrong) that this game is played by a large number of people but not in such a geographically wide area compared to Western or Chinese Chess.

One point I would mention with Capablanca Chess is that the large combined strength of the pieces to commence with is reduced once an exchange of the very strong pieces is made and then reduced still further once another exchange is made, so the game will often "scale down" to something resembling Chess on a larger board (but not greatly larger if 10x8), and if there are different very strong pieces left this could make for very interesting games (IMHO) and perhaps less likelihood of a draw. 

Unaesthetic positions are difficult to define since there is a saying I remember from long ago that "One man's meat is another man's poison" and so I would simply look at a position on the board from any of these three games and see what could be made of it from either side.  Sometimes there are possibilities in a game that are hard to see and the more unusual the position the more you may be able to cause your opponent to go wrong by playing unexpected moves combined with time pressure, if this can be brought about. 

There are three other basic piece compounds I find interesting and I think I first heard these mentioned a number of years ago by one of our editors - Joe Joyce, and they are the Rook, Bishop and Knight each combined with a non-royal King (or Commoner as this piece is sometimes called).  Of these the piece I personally like most is the Knight/Commoner compound and I have called this an Earl - a dangerous piece if he can get into the enemy camp; thanks to Joe for mentioning these pieces.

Anyway its past midnight in the UK and I will have to sign off for now.

Thank-you for the reply Mr Duke.

So Mr Muller seems to agree, at least in part.  What are bizarre positions in Chess? - some of the most exciting positions I've ever seen in Chess might be considered as strange by some - Anderssen v Kieseritzky has a huge material imbalance for example, towards the end.

Despite it all, it seems to come back to Western Chess, Chinese Chess and Capablanca Chess.

I find it very interesting that the most popular pieces for Chess Variants appear to be the very old "Capablanca" compounds.

Thanking the hard working editors of CVP and wishing them a happy new year.

I am still unable to upload images to my pages.  Surely somebody must be aware of this problem and others will find the same problem.  Someone must know the answer surely.

Thanks, I'll give this a try and see what happens.

The moves of the Sky-Prince are set out towards the end of my page titled Jewel: A Linked-Series of Games, though these moves are in turn referred to my page titled Dragon and they are chess-like moves.  To find out more about the wider aspect (chess is a representative game in my opinion) of the Sky-Prince you would need to read about the "Alternate bonuses" for the Jewel Series which are summarised in a table in the page; but really it would be best to read this entire page.
The weaknesses (vulnerabilities) of the Sky-Prince are connected to the wider aspects of him and these are set out in this page (Tiger's-eye Opera) under the section titled "Flash seven:  Crystal of Doom - the Emerald Variation".

Yes, its a good idea to change this to a reference page as they are clarifications and add-ons. Actually the pages titled "from Stalemate to Checkmate" and also "Summary of Game Variations.........". are also more like reference pages and I wonder if you could change these as well and TigerMarks is actually a Game page not a reference page-is it possible to change this. Also I will add references in TigerPad to the games they relate to.

Thanks for your help.

Glenn Nicholls