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	The Origin of Chess
		Chess has been shown to have appeared in India at a date no earlier than the sixth century AD, and Indian scholars themselves seem to believe that the actual date was considerably more recent than even that.
		The fact that Chinese chess also has a rook, a king, a pawn and a bishop, all of which occupy the same place on the board in the starting position and have the same movement and the same name as in the known medieval predecessor of western chess, is simply ignored.
		Chess also crossed from Persia to Ethiopia, where a little known form of the game, in which both sides move simultaneously and as quickly as possible, is still played.
	www.shamema.com /origin.htm (10221 words)

	Baseline chess
		Magnetic Chess, invented by João Pedro Neto and Claude Chaunier, is August's Recognized Chess Variant of the month.
		The idea to undo opening theory and start chess with different opening setups is at least one and a half century old.
		The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, by David Pritchard, lists several versions of Baseline Chess, and several names under which such games are known, e.g., Randomized Chess, Array Chess.
	www.chessvariants.com /diffsetup.dir/baseline.html (1164 words)

	Making Light: Fairy Chess
		The last successful variation to chess was nearly five hundred years ago: The Mad Queen's Game, which gave the queen the power to move the length and breadth of the board in a single move rather than being limited to one square in any direction (like the King's move).
		There's a chess variant family that has wide play that doesn't seem to have been mentioned here: pre-chess, or shuffle chess, where the pieces on the back rows are distributed randomly before the first move.
		In chess, it is well known that under normal circumstances, White needs (in addition to his King of course) a Queen, a Rook, 2 Bishops, or a Bishop and Knight to mate a lone Black King.
	www.nielsenhayden.com /makinglight/archives/006433.html (9871 words)

	Chess Guide > Fisher Random Chess
		White pawns are placed on their orthodox home squares.
		If one has dice shaped like the platonic solids, one never needs to reroll any dice.
		Place the white pawns and mirror the position for fl.
	www.chess.freegames.eu.com /variants/fisher_random_chess.html (3624 words)

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