George Duke wrote on Sat, Dec 12, 2009 05:25 PM UTC:
Score: Mastodon > Modern. NextChess6 is for one-a-day review of each of the
21. There will be no convenient links to write-ups. They stand on their own
naked text here. Was Mastodon Chess always 10x10, or once 8x10? We allow
visualization either way in cases like this; the switch from and to 8x10
and 10x10 is the same CV essentially -- yes yes crucially different play
when crunches come. Winther finds Paolovits' first use differently of
Mastodon as Pasha around 1890. Greenwood's Renaissance has it. It's
natural because ''complements jumping move of Knight,'' says Winther.
If you think about it, all the surrounding 24 squares in 5x5 are hit once
by either Knight or Mastodon for very deep symmetry. We will hierarchize
fully as we go. Somebody has to do it and not be namby-pamby. Mastodon >
Modern. Mastodon is NextChess for how now long-lived. At the end all 21
will be listed in order of preference. Then up to 9 more to 30 altogether, to include Fischer Random Chess getting a bye and one each from
Gifford, Gilman, Fourriere, and Aronson will be slotted in exactly. No
novelty CVs like Rococo.
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