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George Duke wrote on Fri, Nov 2, 2007 01:10 AM UTC:
Ralph Betza seldom goes over 8x8. One article 'Chess on a Really Big Board' has sizes 256-square and larger. Uncharacteristically, Outrigger Chess keys off 80 squares with the two standard new files, but differing mechanisms and connectivity in the usual 'scads' of games. Glenn Overby borrows Toroidal effect for Orwell Chess after this 2002 article. In Inverse Outrigger, the outer files are conveyors rather like recent Abdul-Rahman Sibahi's Quake Chess. Outrigger Torus has complicating connectivity reminiscent of Jeremy Good's in such as Flying Kittens. Big Outer Chess has the layering of Betza's Concentric Outrigger. Like all wisdom going back to Socrates, it seems any supposedly 'new' Chess rule is always found someplace in the right Betza. ''Sometimes it's more fun to make up the Rules than to play the game,'' concludes Betza.

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