Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Jan 6, 2018 08:10 AM UTC:
Thanks, Joe, for the intelligent well-phraised defense, although I'm not sure defenese was even needed. True, I will agree that there are too many variants, and people should spend some time playing existing variants and identifying what should be improved before making their own. But H.G.'s position is strange - that there's just no need to invent anything more until the existing variants are played out (if I understand correctly.) H.G. has also criticised Fischer Random Chess on the grounds that it was "not imaginative" (if I remember correctly) although I consider it a perfect example of a responsible chess variant. Chess was "played out", the openings studied to death. So Fischer tried to make the smallest change possible to solve that problem. The result was FRC. But H.G. doesn't like FRC at the same time it seems he doesn't want a new different-armies inventions until CwDA is "played out". So it seems he doesn't like agressive variants or modest variants, although that's just my nieve view - I'm sure his actual view is much more nuanced.
Thanks, Joe, for the intelligent well-phraised defense, although I'm not sure defenese was even needed. True, I will agree that there are too many variants, and people should spend some time playing existing variants and identifying what should be improved before making their own. But H.G.'s position is strange - that there's just no need to invent anything more until the existing variants are played out (if I understand correctly.) H.G. has also criticised Fischer Random Chess on the grounds that it was "not imaginative" (if I remember correctly) although I consider it a perfect example of a responsible chess variant. Chess was "played out", the openings studied to death. So Fischer tried to make the smallest change possible to solve that problem. The result was FRC. But H.G. doesn't like FRC at the same time it seems he doesn't want a new different-armies inventions until CwDA is "played out". So it seems he doesn't like agressive variants or modest variants, although that's just my nieve view - I'm sure his actual view is much more nuanced.