Chess Replaced?
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misterfever
Feb 7, 2008
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and you get two victory points for longest pawn chain
GutoSilveira wrote:
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]
I just thought about it and one thing I would like to point out is that chess today is much different from the older chess. Chess today has appeal worldwide and millions of people devote their lives to studying and playing chess. Because of this, I believe that the resistance to variations are much stronger, especially when people have been happy with the game for several centuries. Even if a variation/modification is made and it truly is better than modern chess somehow, I believe people will still not accept it. I do not believe that anything can ever replace the rich history of chess.
Seems our young genius's are more interested in warcraft and counter-strike.
Chess won't change though. As has been said many times; the closest contender -Fischer random chess, didn't even come minutely close.
i don't like fisher960 is to boring normal chess is better!
GutoSilveira wrote:
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...
well said, not caring about grammar.
I think that if BUSH ode plaid chess he with give more weapons to the pieces.And now the queen will move like the horse two,and the Rock will look like an oil pump,and en pawn will be promoted in to a king sow you have to give mate on 2 kings in the same time.Squeeze me for the aberrations but this topic looks more like a brine storming.Let your imagination fly. Its about future, not 800 years ago.Talking seriously,its not an serious game, with this rule mi name will not even exist.
I've played cylinder chess, monster chess, and bughouse. They are all fun, but I don't think that any of these are as rewarding as chess. My friend and I used to play "ancient chess" every so often as well. We would agree before hand that pawns could only ever move on space, and/or the king could jump like a knight once in the game and stuff like that. It was a pleasant diversion, but I like chess the way it is.
All the same, I would try the other versions if there was a room in chess.com to play them.