George Duke wrote on Sat, Aug 16, 2008 05:57 PM UTC:
Editor Joe Joyce made the most comments and did the most work in this 2007
thread. It was classic discussion. Joyce stated, ''I found 22 people who
qualify as prolific, having posted 15 or more games.'' Developments since
include my ''91.5 Trillion..'' Comments' creating all of 10^50 CVs by way of taking Mutators in combinations of no more than
32 at a time. Also, current year 2008 sees increasing characterization of
what prolificist CVers do as artwork, artistry, aesthetic art-forms and as such not
major art like sculpture or painting, but minor like orthogonal basketweaving
or needlepointing. The conservative viewpoint, held by millions in the majority, would be that only one Chess as Game, Sport and Science -- or 10, 20
distinct variations of it -- would ever be accepted at a time as
expressive of the zeitgeist, and worthy of full scientific and mathematical treatment. David Pritchard holds to that, saying disparagingly in Intro ''most CVs should be consigned to oblivion.'' H.J.R. Murray holds to that, scoffing, ''Of the making of these games, there can be no end.''