George Duke wrote on Thu, Jul 12, 2007 03:25 PM UTC:
Abdul, any of them are okay presets you care to make year 2007 per our
talks. Abdul-Rahman Sibahi's 15x15 board gives required 7-square multipath Roc two successive moves same direction. 15x15 also happens to be exactly Scrabble(TM) size(225 squares)2,3,or 4 player. Are Scrabble(TM)USP2752158 variations played? (1) Each turn's up to 7 tiles played has second leg, dropping a (blocking) chess Knight, or Bishop, Rook, Immobilizer. (2) Scrabble(TM) could use, in addition to 'double' and 'triples', one quadruple word square or up to nine quadruple letter squares. (3) English & French words, German, Spanish et al. (4) Use of Dictionary by sacrificing tile; 'Official Scrabble Dictionary' two tiles; three future tiles any language (5) Scrabble(TM) two-turn order, take-back, word-play by quadrant, diagonal words, reverse, shifting tiles (6) Scrabble(TM) board 15x16, 16x15, Gustavian 15x15(229 squares) (7) Move tiles as Pawns if legal words remain in any language. Shatranj, Berolina, Cannon. Those 7 alone make at least, in combinations, 5x10x10x5x20x20x10 = 10 million Scrabble(TM) variations. [See also Garwood's Scrabble Battle Chess]