🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Sep 13, 2016 07:45 PM UTC:
A somewhat different object than replacing Chess is creating a variant for Chess players to advance to. The idea here is something like how some video games work. In many video games, you start out at level 1, then move onto level 2, and so on. At each level, the challenges are different, and they are typically more difficult than at the previous level. Under this paradigm, Chess would be level 1, and then some other variants would consitute advanced levels. If Chess tournaments were structured like this, this could be a viable way of getting recognition for Chess variants without trying to displace the position of Chess.
A somewhat different object than replacing Chess is creating a variant for Chess players to advance to. The idea here is something like how some video games work. In many video games, you start out at level 1, then move onto level 2, and so on. At each level, the challenges are different, and they are typically more difficult than at the previous level. Under this paradigm, Chess would be level 1, and then some other variants would consitute advanced levels. If Chess tournaments were structured like this, this could be a viable way of getting recognition for Chess variants without trying to displace the position of Chess.