George Duke wrote on Wed, Dec 1, 2004 04:17 PM UTC:
Thanks to Robert Fischer for coining the phrase 'bad game pollution'. I
address that problem a year ago under 'Slide-Shuffle' ( a type of
Fischer-Random-Chess game). I think Fischer states the case better
cutting as he does across several chess-related disciplines. His figure
of 10,000 games is realistic, my projection of 10 to the 100th (googol)
permutations an obvious over-dramatization. Yet of 2000 CVP games how many
are examined thoroughly for playability? Not more than 5 or 10 have been
analyzed for strategy, tactics, openings, end games except superficially.
Over 1900 games are less advanced than 'mad Queen' (present 'FIDE')
Chess in Andre Danican Philidor's day 225 years ago. Incidentally, how
many CVs were widely known in 1750's, the time of Philidor's early
playing career? 1750 is chosen conveniently as near halfway from 1475,
the earliest date Chess may have acquired its now orthodox embodiment, to
the present. Author of 'Analyze du Jeu des Echecs', actually Philidor
was an experimentalist too, known to give knight odds and play multiple
blindfold games simultaneously.