If Chess Were Created Now...

Creativity is a crutch!

shooting out random stuff that comes into your head is not creativity.

Speak for yourself.

If chess were invented today, a big Corporation would hold the copyright and anytime someone tried to play without using pieces sold by the Corporation they would be sued for millions of dollars  by the Corporation and that would make the game played on bootleg pieces wildly popular because everyone enjoys thumbing their noses at the Corporation. 

admit it, you have something in a museum of modern art.

Yes, I do!  I call it "American NeoGothic":

Was it the one I mentioned? Because that would make your comment totally pointless, wouldn't it?

What typo?  Both you guys are high.

Still say you're puffing on the funny foliage...

If chess was created now, there would be cheerleaders for each side, bent on distracting the opponent with skimpy clothing and sleeping with the star chess player after a major win. (Sounds like American football to me! )

As good an argument for the present day as any I've seen!

Okay some modernisation of chess may work.

Hi, dadx is right, ( post 46 ) forget about 960 ! Chess is good as it is now.

The velociraptor on the fish, or the RPG?

Also, different squares on the board would have special attributes, like a dense forest where your piece turns invisible, or a hill which would give the piece standing on it more defense points. Like in Advance Wars (a videogame).

If chess was created now, it would be more like Pokemon, where you just let your level 50 Houdini battle the other guy's Rybka level 25 over and over again for extra XP

Past tense subjunctive is "were". "If Chess were created now" is more correct than If chess was created now.

"If I were a rich man...."

Oh, you can create a new game. That's a perfectly legitimate word choice. "Invent" may be preferable, but "create" isn't wrong.

Can you create a new invention? That has to be tough.