MY LOTTERY RULES By: The Chess Champ's Philosophy ============================================================= LOTTERY 470 (aka Chess468) - Chess Variant or Chess Improvement ? As much as I like Fischer as a player, I can not agree to this FischerRandom he discovered, that's not chess - THIS IS A CHESS VARIANT, PERIOD. Chess' beauty is gone. There is no more symmetry. The existential understanding, meaning of the game is lost. No more opening balances, proper positioning of the pieces. Lots of bad positioning is created including the creation of bad and inactive bishops. Where are The Balanced Proportions ? - Beauty of form arising from balanced pproportions, that is chess, this is the philosophy behind chess, that is the aesthetics of it all, WHY DID THE GAME SURVIVE WITHOUT ANY CHANGES TO THE RULE SINCE LUCENA'S TIMES, SINCE 1499 OR 1497 ? I am not going to comment on this anymore and I dont have time arguing with others but Chess Survived because people felt it was played right... The FishcerRandom is destruction of chess, period. It's ok to play it as a variant, dont get me wrong here... But not this way, hey I can come up with million ideas, I can say, well we can add 20 more squares and have Capablanca Variant and add 10 more pawns and have the knight move like a bishop/knight combined with extra pawns on the ranks. Hey guess what, that will be very interesting... But again that is not chess. NOW WHEN I PROPOSED THE LOTTERY ONLY FEW PEOPLE AGREED TO IT, WELL IT'S TIME I MOVE ON WITH THIS TO THE BIGGER WATERS... Many people told me... I already said something about it and I will not repeat myself all over. People tell me: " Hey Champ, what if some stupid opening is drawn ? " Ok, how many stupid positions are there in Fischer Random and what about castling there... Tell me about it ? I AM SURE THE CHESS QUALITY WILL EVEN GO HIGHER AND THE GAMES WILL GET INTERESTING. CHESS FANS, REMEMBER... I LOST LOTS OF MONEY AND TIME ON CHESS, I NEVER, EVER PROFITED AND I AM ONLY DOING THIS FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME AND FOR ITS GROWTH AND FOR ITS BENEFIT. The Game of Chess can not and will never die even without lottery because there are just too many moves but my lottery will make it much more beautiful. Remember well. Many people like this idea and many dont, many players in general but something surely must come about. The whole point is not to analyze openings but this is not chess and I NEVER said people should not analyze openings, I am saying memorozing all those chess lines is not chess but knowing chess openings and the ideas and concepts behind them is crucial and important in chess. THE top GM's and others have all those lines memorized and that's why they play chess so well, my question and challenge to them is how good would they be if they played my lottery, HOW GOOD WOULD THEY BE AGAINST ANY BETTER COMPUTER ? THIS LOTTERY IS THE TRUE TEST OF SKILLS. 474 OPENINGS (400 moves after 20x20, first two moves + 74 additional moves of importance) OF GRACE & BEAUTY TOGETHER WITH MY 0-0-0-0 CASTLE, MAKES CHESS A MORE PERFECT GAME, THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED !!! encyclopediasupreme/Lottery.txt Chess468 encyclopediasupreme/Checkers Chess Champ's 7x7 aka 6x6 Checkers The new way to play checkers, if a move is 3 times repeated, like in chess, it's a draw.