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Lol, George! I must be expiating my sins from a past life... a little
exaggeration here? 'One citation'! 'What is Alice Modern Shatranj?'
Good Lord! Not even I could be that bad, George. So I started checking my
citations... ['Aikin's Chesseract, Capa's, Freeling's Grand, Duniho's
Fusion, Jagger's PiRaTeKnIkS, Gilman's 'unnamed game', and others, I
realized I left one out, Abbott's Ultima, for SpaceWar, so I corrected
that. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I could indeed put more
citations into my work. For example, I could have mentioned Betza's name
specifically in CwDA: the Shatranjian Shooters, that Abdul-Rahman Sibahi
and I did, but I felt that the 'CwDA' as the first word [so to speak] in
the name of the game was ample, if shorthand, info on where the game's
origins were. As far as Alice Modern Shatranj, following is the
description copied from the CVPages pointer to the zrf for the ShortRange
Project. A brief note on the zrfs - they were done by my partner on the
project, Christine Bagley-Jones.


'Description 
The ShortRange Project is a joint effort from Christine Bagley-Jones and
Joe Joyce. There are five zrf's contained within, as follows.
 1. HyperModern Shatranj (2 variants)
 2. HyperModern Great Shatranj (4 variants)
 3. LongRange ShortRange piece Mix (4 variants)
 4. Shatranj 10x8 (2 variants)
 5. Alice Shatranj (20 variants)
You can download this game from zillions site via this link.'

I could go on, but it's silly [even moreso than I am]. I suppose I should
correct any gross distortions in your characterizations of my work, but
have at me. You have asked for a write up for this Alice variant; if my
write up is as generous as your ratings of my write ups, then it will be
very short indeed, lol. I floated the basis, if not a synopsis, of a write
up in these Directed Alice comments. I also asked if it should be written
up. Since Gary, who seemed in favor, wished me luck, and you, not in
favor, asked for a write up, I will do one, by popular demand. In the
meantime, keep rippin' me up, dude; rumor has it that some find it funny.
And there needs to be more humor in the game-design community, don't you
think? ;-)

Enjoy,
Joe