Games, analysis and discussion by National Master Kevin Pacey
On the Chess Variant Pages website, webmaster Fergus Duniho recently wrote: "...Chess has been finely honed by natural selection to be free of arbitrariness. Every rule and piece in Chess serves a purpose, and none are arbitrary. Since Chess is what won the survival of the fittest among Chess variants, I expect that any variant capable of succeeding Chess would also have to be free of arbitrariness. But most Chess variants differ from Chess through some arbitrary change to it, ...
Updated 11-17-2020 at 03:09 AM by Kevin Pacey
Here's a link from this year, with a theory I don't quite believe re: conspiracies. It claims just a relatively low number of people (under 3000) involved would inevitably lead to the conspiracy being revealed (by 5 years time). One notable estimate is that 400,000+ would need to be involved if [manmade global] climate change were a deliberate hoax (I'd say maybe it is a hoax, but junk science also could be a possible explanation): http://phys.org/news/2016-01-equatio...ly-reveal.html ...
Updated 12-16-2019 at 01:47 AM by Kevin Pacey
Here's a list of what at least some people may see as some modern problems for chess, together with my discussion of each: 1. Computers are better than the top humans (e.g. now there may be less public respect for chess & chessplayers). A common argument is to draw the analogy that sprinters don't compete with motorized vehicles, so why compare chessplayers to engines? A counter-argument may be that chess used to demonstrate the glory of man's intellect, and having ...
Updated 05-21-2017 at 10:29 AM by Kevin Pacey