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Unfortunately, as already indicated by intervening comment, a different philosophy governs CVP that I for one disagree with. It's devil-may-care, anything goes, Fergus Duniho somewhere likens it to '007' (James-Bond-style), no holds barred. Immediately, look alphabetically under 'Interview with Hans Bodlaender', and David Howe's question early on, relating to Duniho's Enneagram applied to Chess. They think one game(permutation) is about as good as another. In the interview, all concurring in Category '5' there, whose believers think 'Chess is like a box of Legos or Tinker Toys, mixing and matching various rules, pieces and boards to try out various possibilities. While 'Fives' may employ standards in creating their games,...' [and on and on] Fundamentally there are unconcern about quality, comtempt for anyone who does not profess to be or conform to described '5'; and anyway analysis, playtesting too much work the forms being myriad.