the motivation for me in inventing a 'Fair-chess' system,
was mostly a gap between home players and club players
(not a gap between superGM's and NM level).
Having been member of a rather old fashioned chess club for
years (maybe comparable with the famous Manhattan chess club),
https://www.dd1852.nl/page.php?i=274
i noticed that in the internal 'competition' (a more informal
'tournament' with weekly games), quite a lot of newcomers were
quitting their membership after a year, having lost most games.
A pity for such a chess club, because in some way it also as a social
function at least within the chess world. At (slightly above)
average club-player level, i wouldn't mind to play with a
handicap against such newcomers especially not when formalized
with a proper system. It's not that i would 'offer knights odds',
but simply that , based on the rating difference, i would
be [i]required[/i] to play with a handicap, against eg. a weaker
newcomer. Such a system could be setup as alternative, besides
the regular internal competition.
It also can work on chess servers, probably as a start, a test
phase. Also, the youth might like it, as there's no knowledge
required about the conventional opening system(s) and variations.
In the Dutch training system with the step method, opening
theory hardly is discussed until the highest level (6) or so,
besides general rules as development, etc. (which is why i
wrote a book about openings for beginners/intermediate players,
btw; but it's not such an easy book for younger youth, and also
there's not a Dutch translation (yet) ).
Then, It might also work in correspondence chess, again as
an extra option. I believe i can design an initial system for
such play, with the premises that the classes of rating ration's
vs material handicaps may be (and probably will be) updated until
a final version still settle itself.
In Shogi there is a handicap system, and it works, although it's
not obliged; LK even wrote a book about the handicap system,
and i don't see why a properly designed handicap system
couldn't work in chess. But for those who dislike chess variants
almost as matter of principle or wouldn't like to play against
a weaker player with material odds, it's simple, don't play it,
it simply will be an alternative, not replacing main Fide
chess rules, but more as an extra option.Simple, isn't it
For the rest i don't want to waste my time on discussions with
negative people as i better can spend that time on updating
my awesome Fair-Chess zillions prototype (and descriptions)
and probably make a FC Winboard variant. with some suitable
engines; it also could maybe be implemented in e.g. Lucas Chess,