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An interesting way to bring 'spaciousness' to the usually constricted play of round boards is Richard VanDeventer's Round Table Chess (92 sqs.) and its improvement Round Table 84--not covered under Charles Gilman's Tryzantine article. Of course, as with square boards and with rectangular boards, and with hexagonal-spaced ones and 3-D, it quickly can multiply into infinitude in combinations (of game-rules sets), each one making a game unto itself, by varying piece types, numbers and board sizes; my comments under the randomized chess Slide-Shuffle support that truism. Still VanDeventer Round boards without a 'hole' suggest whole new families of kindred variations.