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William Overington wrote on Sat, Apr 12, 2003 09:01 AM UTC:

Circular forty-three cell chess board with the cell colourings reminiscent
of semiprecious gemstones.

I was recently looking at the following page, authored by Mike Kelley.

http://www.starwars-rpg.net/journal/archive/2000-08/holochess.html

I was also thinking about this present contest and I realized that a
circular board along the general design of the board used in that page
could be constructed with 3 rings each of 14 cells and 1 centre cell so as
to make a board with 43 cells.

I have thus far produced a board and thought about trying to produce an
entry for the contest, though not got too far with that as yet.

So, I thought that I would make the board available now and allow anyone
who wishes to use it as part of an entry to this contest to do so, in the
hope that the board will be used.

It is available at the following address on the web.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/board43r.gif

If the editors of www.chessvariants.com agree to include the graphic in
the www.chessvariants.com webspace the graphic may be copied by them and
included as a board graphic within the www.chessvariants.com webspace.

The design is intended to convey the idea of cells within a gold framework
with the cells paved with rose quartz, jade and lapis lazuli.

I have entitled it as 'Circular forty-three cell chess board with the
cell colourings reminiscent of semiprecious gemstones.' and hope that the
design will be used for some original chess variant games.

William Overington

12 April 2003