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Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Dec 2, 2004 06:53 PM UTC:
Hmmmm... I'm not sure what to make of any of this, but my first reaction
is to dis-believe every word of it.  You claim it's older than the modern
(corrupted) form of 'common' chess, as you call it.  Funny how
Pritchard's Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (the CV bible) doesn't even
mention it.  Even if the rules are super-secret, as you claim, surely the
existance of such a game would be known to Pritchard.  But, rather, you
claim that orthodox Chess is actually decended from some super-secret game
pioneered by the English monarchy, when it's pretty clear that Chess
derived from Chaturanga from India.  You say that one of the reasons why
Stanley Random Chess has not gained any recognition is because (and I
quote):

the Simplified SR (Common) Chess community has long resisted the notion
that SR Chess is a predecessor that predates the more common and corrupted
form of the game.

Yup.  No disagreement there; I dispute the notion.