Re: Is Hera****ian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

On Apr 8, 10:19 pm, "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)"
<sennaj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 6:40 pm, "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)"

> > On Apr 7, 7:55 am, richardhut...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
> > > So the basic framework for the ultimate chess variant would be: Can
> > > you have a framework for chess and variants that would enable a
person
> > > to NEVER play chess the same way twice (by the exact same set of
> > > rules)?
>
> > It's only to easy.

> I was very conservative. In fact, I have many more
> of them, and each sequence consists of astronomically
> many variants. (Variants from different sequences
> are always different, and so are any two from any
> given sequence).

Astronomically large isn't infinite though.  You can see one version
laid out by George Duke, in 91 1/2 Trillion Falcon Chess variants, to
see the boundaries here:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSninety-oneanda

The number studied has gotten larger than 91 1/2 Trillion by the way.
However, it still isn't unbound or infinite.  Perhaps someone
mathematically can show the number of potential rules governing any
system is finite in nature, then Hera****ian (and its Calvinball
version) wouldn't be possible.

- Rich