Chess Replaced?

yes video games

I believe I have already stated my views on this in another thread, but I will attempt to reiterate succintly.

Chess, the form of it we play today, has endured without major change for over 800 years.  Over that time period, multiple variations on this base game have been created, such as Seirawan Chess, and Fischerrandom, but only the form of Chess that we all know and enjoy on this site has ever had widespread or lasting appeal. 

 I certainly agree to this comment.

I think Fischerrandom has a real chance if it becomes more mainstream... most people have either never heard of it or have never really been given an oppertunity to play it.

My money is on Fischerrandom though. In my lifetime I'm going to do what I can to assist in it's popularity. 

I would like to talk about something else, but related with this thread...

I hear a lot of people say that chess is the ultimate board game and will never be replaced, but that IS a lie. An illusion, to be precise. Some speeches include almightiness, despite and in some rare cases even 'xenophoby' against new chess variations.

I agree that chess is the best board game ever conceived SO FAR, but we can't stop the world from spinning... Everything changes at every moment, and that's not as breakable as a law: that happens, and there's nothing we can do about it.

Think about chess' precursor games. They were all good games, and people who use to play them  - specially those who liked them as much as we like chess today - thought that those games were the ultimate human intelligence creations and some thought that those games would be immortal. And there is a detail: IF THEY HAD MADE UP RESISTANCE TO NEW VARIATIONS AN WON, WE WOULD BE STILL PLAYING THOSE GAMES! THE WORLD WOULD NEVER MEET 'OUR' CHESS!

And finally, when I look at those games, I don't see ALL the geniality, beauty and joy I see in our chess, and I also see a huge evolution since them. If we let the evolution do it's job without interposition, who knows what wonders waits for us in the future?

Think about it...

 [please forgive any language mistakes, I'm trying hard to learn english]

It was only around 500 years ago that the rules for chess as we know it took hold. Before that the Queen was the weakest piece on the board, Bishops had limited range, there was no en passant etc. (I believe the current rules for castling are even more recent.) With the radical social changes brought about by the renaissance chess was being enjoyed by the common people who no doubt preferred things more fast paced than the game played in stuffy aristocratic drawing rooms. Before these rules gained wide acceptance there must have been people suggesting that the old rules were due for revision. I can well imagine that they would have been told that the current rules had endured without major change for hundreds of years so why not stop talking nonsense.

I will trade you two sheep for that comment, well done sir.