After becoming a 2300 player in the 1980s, for one reason or another I more or less stagnated at that level until mid-2010, when I briefly was rated at the 2400 CFC-rated level at age 49. I rapidly dropped off in rating since that time, to be currently low-2200 CFC. I have my reasons and excuses for the stagnation and drop off in rating, notably not finding the time to do that I know which will possibly help boost my rating at least for a while. What I would like to share instead is five tips about ...
Updated 08-20-2018 at 05:44 PM by Kevin Pacey
Included below are links to The Chess Variant Pages website re: descriptions of 4 chess variant inventions of mine, most thought of within the last couple of years. On that free membership website, members can play all 4 of these using its Game Courier email system: 10x8 Hannibal Chess (includes elephant pieces that leap 1 or 2 squares diagonally); with mention of link about old classic 10x8 Janus Chess (therein, link given about old classic 10x8 Capablanca Chess): ...
Updated 09-10-2018 at 01:16 AM by Kevin Pacey
Here are some thoughts and lists of mine regarding goals that the CFC might aim for at some time in the future: The following is based on an April 2017 chesstalk discussion forum post of mine: Regarding the 2012 CFC Long-term Planning Committee report, a lot of the planning was based on repeating previous success stories in the case of Windsor. Fwiw, my first instinct was that Windsor was something of a special case, but I still saw quite a lot that could be salvaged ...
Updated 06-02-2020 at 12:25 AM by Kevin Pacey
Originally Posted by Lyle Craver We have two nominations for CFC Director at Large Nominees are (in alphabetical order) Mark Dutton Voting closes at 6pm ET Saturday August 26th.
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