Re: "Kasparov Retails Title on a Draw": Does this headline do

On Apr 21, 8:15 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 20, 10:33 pm, Rich Hutnik <richardhut...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> My initial reaction is that it may not help chess, but it is
> unavoidable.

I think  as was posted, the world champion****p is treated as personal
property, not a measure of greatness, and this hurts the game.

> On another topic - I've seen a posting of yours on the Chess Variant
> pages, where you comment negatively on people proposing new solutions
> to problems instead of testing them.

I think maybe it has to do more with Grand Chess by Sammy I displayed
that.  I also had suggested that the chess variant community break
their variants down into different components so people can test them,
and an experiential approach be used more.  I am in favor of people
proposing new solutions, but I also would like to see new solutions
tried and adopted.  What you did see with the likes of Braves Chess
was my issue with someone labelling a universal solution for draws, as
a chess variant, than a rules patch.  I also think if someone devises
a new game piece, they should label it as a piece.

> So you may not be interested, but
> I think I've come up with a scheme - this "Dynamic Scoring" thing -
>
> http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0103.htm
>
> that could address draws *even in* situations like the World
> Champion****p match, not just in tournaments.

I scanned it quickly.  I am up for anything that will improve chess as
a game AND as a s****t.  I believe the Chess AS A S****T side has a lot
of work.  Chess the game is far better off.

> Recently, there was another posting here about the death of Steinitz;
> the article showed how, in addition to suffering from the
> psychological pressures associated with Chess, his fate may also have
> been partly due to the burden of anti-Semitism to which he was
> subjected as well. If Steinitz was the Shusaku of Chess, I am trying
> to set the stage for the Go Seigen of Chess - by copying _komida****_
> from Go as best I can.
>
> It may be unfair to pin all the blame on Steinitz, but by advancing
> our understanding of Chess, he did make Chess play less flamboyant
> than it once was. One way to get chessplayers to play inferior moves
> is tighter time controls, but that isn't really what is wanted. We
> want flashy, exciting Chess like they had before Steinitz - piece
> sacrifices right and left and so on.

As a game gets analyzed to death, this happens.  One interesting study
into chess at the highest level is the play "The French Defense",
which is actually an interesting psychological school.  Is it that
they hypermodern school got slapped down by rigidly sound play that we
got away from wild excesses?

> If I hadn't heard of komida****, and its results in practice in Go, I
> would still have despaired of coming up with any notion that would
> have any possibility of helping with this part of the problem.

I would need to study more.  I am not familiar with that.

- Rich