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Topic: Using Alice from Lewis Carroll
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Hi, I'm new here, just visiting and checking out the place first.
While I like the idea of using Alice (from Lewis Carroll's book) for a chess site, hasn't this idea already been implemented first at www.schemingmind.com? Not in the name, maybe, but in the pictures throughout the site (also correspondence chess). Just curious about this.
On a different note, how many players are here at queenalice.com?
SR Chess GM Gregory Topov
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Hello Gregory, I'm very glad to have you as a member!
| While I like the idea of using Alice (from Lewis Carroll's book) for a chess site, hasn't this idea already been implemented first at www.schemingmind.com? |
You will also find Tenniel's pictures in several other chess sites, they are in the public domain by now. As you probably know, the connection between the Alice books and chess is really strong, in particular in the second book, so when I was trying to come up with the theme for this site Alice was one of the first possibilities I explored (I actually couldn't believe it when I saw that the queenalice.com domain wasn't taken by anyone yet!)
| On a different note, how many players are here at queenalice.com? |
There are about 360 members and growing fast! About 60% of those members are actively playing and coming to the site at least once a day.
Miguel
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Thanks for the reply, I guess when I first visited the site, my impression was "hey, this looks a lot like another correspondence chess site, and seems to have copied ideas!" I don't know how your other features compare though. Do you offer "variants" like Stanley Random Chess? (which technically isn't a variant, as I'm sure you know, but the "pure" form of original chess.)
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No, the site features just the standard form of chess at this time. Variants are not a top priority in my list, there are so many things still to do to improve the site that I think it will be at least a year until I start considering adding other games.
I do, however, find Stanley Random very interesting, so that will be within my first to implement when the time comes. 
Regarding copying from other sites, I try not to be influenced by how other sites do things, the features I add to the site are either my own ideas or things that have been suggested by members in the forums.
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Fischer Random Chess is also interesting, but in my opinion is clearly inferior to Stanley Random Chess, because it doesn't implement the extra rules governing move sequences and board patterns (which were later largely forgotten when Standard Chess developed as a result of the Great SR Chess Purge in the nineteenth century). Quite honestly, I can't imagine it would be possible to implement Stanley Random Chess without directly interfacing with an ISRCA database, am I correct? (how schemingmind.com got permission from the ISRCA to do this baffles me!).
But I can appreciate that you want to stick to standard chess (although as a purist I naturally regard "standard" chess as a simplified form and development from SR Chess) on this site for now. Thanks again for replying.
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What's exactly Stanley Random Chess? I've read something but nothing very clear.
Regards
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