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Herlock Sholmes: Some people simply cannot conceive or speak of conventional Western chess as being a variant (admittedly, far and away the most popular chess variant).
To me, it seems similar to the way that many people adamantly refuse to categorize alcohol as drug, or to conceive of humans as primates. The list goes on and on...