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Life, the Universe and Everything. 42-square double-move variant with unusual pieces, inspired by Douglas Adams' fiction. (6x7, Cells: 42) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Apr 1 04:53 PM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 02:25 PM:

A game with a pretentious title that adds nothing to chess.

The title is borrowed from the Douglas Adams book.

I don't care how famous the author was.

The book is from a widely beloved trilogy that serves as the gold standard for sci-fi comedy, and this series is in fact the author's main claim to fame. If not for this series, he might not be any better known than other Doctor Who script writers, such as Terry Nation.

If "the answer to everything is 42", the author refuses to further explain his reason for choosing such a number.

It was for comedic effect, and given that he is dead, he is not really refusing to explain anything.