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A celluloid glossed over this attempted annotation last month, still appropriate for the present extended solstitial/new year time. http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=26942, Queen Whims represents variants of chess and problemists' fancies, even Rabelais seems to be suggesting. So many doubled rhymes, unprecedented with meaning, come just from the paper-and-pencil game rhymie-stymie of long standing. Philip Jose Farmer died 2 years ago, author of 'World of Tiers' and 'Riverworld' series.
Around year 1540 Rabelais' 'Gargantua V Chapter 25', http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rabelais/francois/r11g/book5.25.html, ends after the live performance ''How the Thirty-two Persons at the Ball Fought'' with the hostess' departure in the last paragraph, ''Queen Whims vanished, so that we saw her no more from that day to this.'' Don't believe any closure though, since She did survive, who inspired regina rabiosa, who had been with King Alphonso X for Grande Ajedrez having the Gryphon, and would resurface only year 1617 in Carrera's Centaur and Champion next-door to Rabelaisian France. Queen Whims as Variants of Chess always in opposition to Caissan formalization. This ''CMXII:Piece-Makers'' exhibits right away the Falcon declaring ''Making such games out of full caprices.'' Synonymously, Caprices and Whims in to do what you will if fully in accord with nature. By contrast actually representing the one Greek pantheon mortality is death of the great wilderness god Pan, already distorted, the true Pan memorialized this week exactly on accepted for convenience correspondent December 25 4 BCE?
No, my argument that the Mastodon/Pasha is an interesting piece
builds on a few games against my two Mastodon Chess variants
here (10x10) and here here (8x10). I exemplify with a Mastodon
king attack. Earlier, in this forum, Mr. Kaufmann gave an example of an
elegant Mastodon combination. Important endgame properties are
these: King + Mastodon wins against King + Bishop or Knight, and
draws against King + Queen. The Mastodon is stronger than a rook.
/Mats
builds on a few games against my two Mastodon Chess variants
here (10x10) and here here (8x10). I exemplify with a Mastodon
king attack. Earlier, in this forum, Mr. Kaufmann gave an example of an
elegant Mastodon combination. Important endgame properties are
these: King + Mastodon wins against King + Bishop or Knight, and
draws against King + Queen. The Mastodon is stronger than a rook.
/Mats
Millions of chess piece-types are possible (and impossible to be played), but seven are fundamental west and/or east. Any one of the millions of piece-types, some announced inventor can use words like ''interesting, challenging'' and frankly get away with it in CVPage. And they do as if original even though the piece-type, or near-equivalent, has been used over and over. Basically, Xiangqi is flawed because there is no distinguishing Cannon from Long Leaper or Grasshopper or ten or twenty others similar in modality and then saying one, Cannon in particular, or another is best or correct from group of Hoppers. That has nothing to do directly with the subject matter of Morality XII, but CMXII is my favourite so far. Whereas Xiangqi is flawed, in that for another example, there is no rationale for size of palace, Shogi the other standard, is simply arbitrary, having no sustaining logic. For playability, Xiangqi is excellent and Shogi poor. Again, the CM here does not address those two, Shogi and Xiangqi, yet accompanying Falcon Chess article has section on those other two Chesses for contrast. The reasoning for building blocks of OrthoChess, complementarity and completeness, does not exist elsewhere and assures its logical extension beyond 64 squares, to either 80 or 100. Moreover, mere 80 squares are still fewer than Shogi's 81 or Xiangqi's 90 spaces.
Both correct, broadly speaking, well simile wins. The ''double rhymes'' are hard. Battered by rockets, scattered in pockets. Perish the notions, cherish the motions. They would be written out with other interesting rhymes month or year before finding a use. Similarly, I had ''The Glowth'' to replace The Big Bang, too late to enter after 'Sky & Telescope's' contest in 1993. Judges Carl Sagan and Hugh Downs rejected all 13,000 entries and Big Bang sticks. I would enter The Glowth if they ever hold it again and finally published the Glowth 2003 in Poem XI ''Pleiadic Dialogue,'' the one right before this one. It might stand a chance. What would you name the Big Bang -- which after all Fred Hoyle came up with derisively in 1949? It was a serious year-long contest pre-Internet days. Hoyle's and others' Steady State had equal billing through the 1950's until physicists found the cosmic background radiation.
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Gelman cites Farmer's 1967 ''Riders of the Purple Wage'' with respect to Betza's ''Worth Than Worthless.'' By coincidence, in our collection and used here is the same P.J. Farmer's chessic quote from novelette 'Sail On, Sail On' as introduction: ''Black and White, they presented a solid Chessboard of the seemingly empty cosmos....'' Test question: Is ''As live as a bird and dead as a stone'' Simile or Metaphor?
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