#6. Yes, another address system, while having a tree structure, it still has no grouping of the games within, I mean the ideas are still buried in the tree and dispersed. It would still need to be inverted, somehow. for me to make sense, and reduce rote memory load by using concept or idea based associations, or whatever it is that i find lack in such an arbitrary partial ordering.
The ply level branching is the problem, it means very little in term of long term typology of the game (some do, but you will find in the ECO characterizations, that they had to include some Trademark icons, which i understand to reduce the claim that it would actually have meaning for the whole descendant branch (all the deeper variations will carry that term as address, but the meaning of the term would be not applicable to a sizable portion_). I am thinking of closed, open, semi-closed.... it might have been functional, in the past, but it seems that discovery, and transpositions put a dent in ECO being more than a library shelving system. (which is better than individual pioneers authorship names, but only so slightly, perhaps the names are more honest in not carrying any meaning, but the exact sequence of the variation they map to.
The ply level branching is the problem, it means very little in term of long term typology of the game (some do, but you will find in the ECO characterizations, that they had to include some Trademark icons, which i understand to reduce the claim that it would actually have meaning for the whole descendant branch (all the deeper variations will carry that term as address, but the meaning of the term would be not applicable to a sizable portion_). I am thinking of closed, open, semi-closed.... it might have been functional, in the past, but it seems that discovery, and transpositions put a dent in ECO being more than a library shelving system. (which is better than individual pioneers authorship names, but only so slightly, perhaps the names are more honest in not carrying any meaning, but the exact sequence of the variation they map to.