Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To George Duke wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 05:32 PM UTC:It comes as a surprise what CVs mean to other participants unless there is some commonality. Slider is spider in 8 directions. Leaper is creeper in etymological descriptive child's play. Not everything thought up deserves the light of day. Martin Gardner wrote 25 years ago, ''Since we can invent bizarre chessmen that move according to any specific set of rules, the range of quadraphage-type games obviously is unlimited.'' Squares are infinite, and pieces are infinite. CVPage never did its job to find which-other taxonomy may help more. Each piece can be a piece-type category unto itself, so classes are infinite too, like boards. The more specific, the fewer members -- dilemma of categorization. Taxonomy is another game, classification by geometry, having utility more organizable than word-games, but less so than star-types or biological kingdoms, a middle ground. Super-taxonomy would account for history and complementarity too. The base is not formalism, let alone constructivism, but platonism. These things are real, real as the nose on your face. Once a construction establishes, it obliterates a thousand others. After this comment the particular will always take precedence. In fact, that is a new definition of Chess: amplification of the specific instance by a leap of faith for reasons of...for reasons...for Reason, leave it at that. Faith in Reason. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID ChessboardMath10 does not match any item.