Rob wrote:

wrote:
There will be a live announcement about FISCHER-KARPOV by guest Ed
Trice on my "Ask the Renaissance Show" Thursday Oct 12 at 9-10 PM. Due
to the special nature of this announcement, the ICC is making this show
available to EVERYONE, and not just ICC members (i.e., "Guests" can
listen this week). To listen to the show go to www.chess.fm and click
on the Dan Heisman show.

Ed Trice is the inventor of Gothic Chess. His website is
www.gothicchess.org

My website is www.danheisman.com

NM Dan Heisman

Dan,
Great show. Hope Ed can pull it off. If he does it is a coup.This could
make Gothic Chess almost as popular as regular chess. WIll you be
acting as a consultant?
Rob

I'll be Bobby's consultant. He trusts me.

Sam Sloan

I have the greatest respect for Dan, but I think this story is a hoax.

Who would put up $15 million to sponsor a match of gothic chess, where
Fischer was a participant? What will the sponsors receive in return? The
Fischer factor aside, who will be interested in this contest? As a chess
player, I am not very interested in variants except perhaps for Fischer
Random. I've never even played over a F-R game though.

Supposedly the prize fund will be between $10 million and $15 million, plus
for some reason the organizers must rent *all* the rooms in the hotel for
the duration of the match, so you can throw in another few million. Plus the
organization.

I'll go out on a limb: this match will never happen. If it does it will be a
huge dud.

adp



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There will be a live announcement about FISCHER-KARPOV by guest Ed
Trice on my "Ask the Renaissance Show" Thursday Oct 12 at 9-10 PM. Due
to the special nature of this announcement, the ICC is making this show
available to EVERYONE, and not just ICC members (i.e., "Guests" can
listen this week). To listen to the show go to www.chess.fm and click
on the Dan Heisman show.

Ed Trice is the inventor of Gothic Chess. His website is
www.gothicchess.org

My website is www.danheisman.com

NM Dan Heisman

Ange1o DePa1ma wrote:
I have the greatest respect for Dan, but I think this story is a hoax.

Who would put up $15 million to sponsor a match of gothic chess, where
Fischer was a participant? What will the sponsors receive in return? The
Fischer factor aside, who will be interested in this contest? As a chess
player, I am not very interested in variants except perhaps for Fischer
Random. I've never even played over a F-R game though.

Supposedly the prize fund will be between $10 million and $15 million, plus
for some reason the organizers must rent *all* the rooms in the hotel for
the duration of the match, so you can throw in another few million. Plus the
organization.

I'll go out on a limb: this match will never happen. If it does it will be a
huge dud.

adp

My take.

Fischer will back out thus the fairly premature announcement since
all the details have not been worked out. So they get all the publicity
now and will deal with any fallout if/when Fischer backs out. Which
shouldn't be too much since people know how totally irrational Fischer
is now.

Javert wrote:
Ange1o DePa1ma wrote:
I have the greatest respect for Dan, but I think this story is a hoax.

Who would put up $15 million to sponsor a match of gothic chess, where
Fischer was a participant? What will the sponsors receive in return? The
Fischer factor aside, who will be interested in this contest? As a chess
player, I am not very interested in variants except perhaps for Fischer
Random. I've never even played over a F-R game though.

Supposedly the prize fund will be between $10 million and $15 million, plus
for some reason the organizers must rent *all* the rooms in the hotel for
the duration of the match, so you can throw in another few million. Plus the
organization.

I'll go out on a limb: this match will never happen. If it does it will be a
huge dud.

adp

My take.

Fischer will back out thus the fairly premature announcement since
all the details have not been worked out. So they get all the publicity
now and will deal with any fallout if/when Fischer backs out. Which
shouldn't be too much since people know how totally irrational Fischer
is now.


It's been a week and no follow up information. Whats going on?

So? What was the big announcement? A match? When? Where?

--Duncan

wrote in message
oups.com...
There will be a live announcement about FISCHER-KARPOV by guest Ed
Trice on my "Ask the Renaissance Show" Thursday Oct 12 at 9-10 PM. Due
to the special nature of this announcement, the ICC is making this show
available to EVERYONE, and not just ICC members (i.e., "Guests" can
listen this week). To listen to the show go to www.chess.fm and click
on the Dan Heisman show.

Ed Trice is the inventor of Gothic Chess. His website is
www.gothicchess.org

My website is www.danheisman.com

NM Dan Heisman

On Oct 21, 12:37 pm, "Duncan Oxley" No@Thanks wrote:
So? What was the big announcement? A match? When? Where?

Supposedly there is to be a Fischer-Karpov match, but not in standard
chess, instead in a variant called Gothic Chess, which is similar to
the game Capablanca designed about 80 years ago, with two extra pieces
(R+N and B+N) and an 8x10 board. Some news about pre-match organization
can be read he

http://www.gothicchess.com/news.html

Whether it will actually come off, I don't know. I do somewhat know
Frank Camaratta, who is to supply the set for the match, and I doubt he
would be knowingly involved in any hoax.

"Taylor Kingston" wrote

Supposedly there is to be a Fischer-Karpov match, but not in standard
chess, instead in a variant called Gothic Chess, which is similar to
the game Capablanca designed about 80 years ago, with two extra pieces
(R+N and B+N) and an 8x10 board. Some news about pre-match organization
can be read he

http://www.gothicchess.com/news.html

Whether it will actually come off, I don't know. I do somewhat know
Frank Camaratta, who is to supply the set for the match, and I doubt he
would be knowingly involved in any hoax.


OK thanks.

--Duncan

On 21 Oct 2006 10:00:11 -0700, "Taylor Kingston"
wrote:

Supposedly there is to be a Fischer-Karpov match, but not in standard
chess, instead in a variant called Gothic Chess, which is similar to
the game Capablanca designed about 80 years ago, with two extra pieces
(R+N and B+N) and an 8x10 board.

I wonder why a third piece, one which combines R+N+B, wasn't added to
the mix.

On Oct 23, 10:30 am, Mike Murray wrote:
On 21 Oct 2006 10:00:11 -0700, "Taylor Kingston"

wrote:
Supposedly there is to be a Fischer-Karpov match, but not in standard
chess, instead in a variant called Gothic Chess, which is similar to
the game Capablanca designed about 80 years ago, with two extra pieces
(R+N and B+N) and an 8x10 board.

I wonder why a third piece, one which combines R+N+B, wasn't added to
the mix.

A Q+N combination, in effect? Perhaps it was considered too powerful.
Back when I was a kid, I tried devising some chess variants. One had a
piece which moved like a rook, except that it was allowed to go one
square diagonally at any point, at the start or end of its move, or in
the midst of its orthogonal move. If the diagonal move was within or at
the start of its orthogonal move, it could then continue orthogonally
in any direction, east, west, north or south -- a rook that could turn
corners and change lanes, so to speak. I thought this was pretty cool
until I realized that on an empty board, such a piece could move to any
square at all.

That would be Q + N.

Cheers,

zdrakec

Mike Murray wrote:
On 21 Oct 2006 10:00:11 -0700, "Taylor Kingston"
wrote:

Supposedly there is to be a Fischer-Karpov match, but not in standard
chess, instead in a variant called Gothic Chess, which is similar to
the game Capablanca designed about 80 years ago, with two extra pieces
(R+N and B+N) and an 8x10 board.

I wonder why a third piece, one which combines R+N+B, wasn't added to
the mix.