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I have the pleasure to announce my latest book, "More Chess & More Than Chess", finally published 3 years after I started this project. It is available on various platforms, preferably here, on Lulu.com

This book gives many details about chess variants, a large chapter of their history, a one-by-one presentation of many fairy pieces and then, it presents 20 selected chess variants. 10 of them are mine (Shako, Tamerlane II, Metamachy, Very Large Chess, Zanzibar/Maasai, Pemba, Gigachess, Terachess, Fantastic XIII, Rollerball) and 10 are among those I prefer in the category of large CVs. There are Musketeer Chess from Zied Haddad, Sac Chess from Kevin Pacey, Opulent Chess from Greg Strong, Expanded Chess and Enhanced Courier Chess from Daniel Zacharias, Elven Chess from H.G. Muller, Eurasian Chess and Gross Chess from Fergus Duniho, Hectochess from Adam de Witt and Obento Chess from Eric Silverman.

These authors are acknowledged for their co-operation here. I also want to deeply thanks H.G. Muller who wrote two contributions in this book about the history of chess variants and computers, and about the estimation of pieces' value. H.G. made also the excellent suggestion, and even developed the online appendix of this book, where all these games can be played with Interactive Diagrams and benefit from the numerous features of this application. It can be found here:

http://history.chess.free.fr/mcmtc/appendix/index.html

Finally, this book would not exist without the endless help of Paul Rapoport, "Numerist" on this web place, who has accompanied me all along these 3 years, providing precious advices and opinions and, above all, checking every word, every sign of punctuation, as English is not my mother tongue as you can guess reading this message. This book is also his book.

I hope you will find it interesting and I will be very glad if it emulates some new creations of fantastic chess variants in the future.