Talk:Musketeer Chess

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Hi, this article was an effort after a few months of research, interviewing and emailing various chess experts. These experts are programmers, known chess bloggers from the biggest online chess server chess.com and other resources such as the Github project which is like wikipedia, where we can share programs and ideas. Musketeer Chess is a Chess variant. It's becoming more and more popular. For the moment only one book mentions the chess variant (it's currently in Press and i provided the ISBN), the other references are independent references from people that have done reseach on the variant, developed mathematical methods to evaluate and assess the variant (for example to provide a value for the added pieces), created engines playing the game and this was a very tough task for these programmers. They even created and used different approaches like Genetic Algorithms (i havent't mentioned this in the references and could add it), Neural Networks (2 engines), SPSA (2 engines: Stockfish and Deuterium).

The game was also mentioned several times on Game Geek and Chess Variants + References on chess.com various blogs and forums.

If you evaluate this work on criterions just based on articles or books, you will for sure find only one reference. But based on what i've said, you should be a chess player, knowing the chess community to be able to judge the reliability of the references cited. Just check chess.com to see that it's ranked number one for online play, and that it's the biggest place where a vast majority of the chess community discuss and share about various subjects related to chess (theory, problems, history, material like books and chess sets etc) and chess variants.

Also, Chess variants are popular but there are so much interesting ones to discuss. The recent books (the last one was the encyclopedia by Pritchard released in beginning 2000 and chess history in 2016 by JL Cazeaux and Rick Knownlton). These books where written before the release of the chess variant. A history of chess was released in 2016. I discussed and interviewed the authors. They clearly said that they knew about Musketeer Chess in 2015, and that their book was already reviewed and being in Press. They said to me by emails that Musketeer Chess will for sure have it's own article on their book: only available commercial variant, some unique features of the game etc.

So having no articles doesn't JUSTIFY not publishing this work. I have many other links and references i didn't add or deleted because i found that they promoted the commercial variant (even though these people where not directly related to the inventor). I preferred to remove them and also i removed comments i made because it was a personal opinion on the game which i learned that it's not objective. Thanks all of you for your help making this work live and thanks for your advices that for sure made my personal work evolve in a better way, helped me practice english (not a native langage). Best regards Raphael — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raphael.elie.kakou (talk • contribs) 01:41, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I have copied your message over to the ongoing deletion discussion at Articles for deletion/Musketeer chess along with a brief response, please take a look and see if you can resolve the issues that have been brought up. Thanks, Nathan2055talk - contribs 03:40, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

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I don't appreciate to see myself associated to this page. I guess who is this person and if I had a conversation with him, it was private and he doesn't have my authorisation to speak for me. More upsetting, his comment does not respect the correct mention of our book, the year of publication is wrong, the publisher is not mentioned and moreover the names of both myself and my co-author are mis-spelled. If his game was not described in our book is for other reasons, that I don't have to comment here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cazaux (talk • contribs) 19:44, 15 December 2020 (UTC)