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Gothic Chess "Details" #21

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GothicChessInventor opened this issue Oct 28, 2017 · 0 comments
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Gothic Chess "Details" #21

GothicChessInventor opened this issue Oct 28, 2017 · 0 comments

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GothicChessInventor commented Oct 28, 2017

The Gothic Chess "description" seems rather vague, and has some misinformation about the patent on the website. The United States Patent, 6,481,716 was sold to international financiers who were funding the $15,000,000 Gothic Chess match between Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, originally slated to take place in 2007 but delays pushed it back to at least June 2018. The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper article that appeared the day after Fischer died (January 19, 2018) mentioned the match, with confirmation from Grandmaster Susan Polgar that everything was in place should Fischer had lived. As the inventor of this variant, I worked hard on researching that setup from 1998-2000, I published two peer-reviewed papers about Gothic Chess and other 10x8 setups.

See the International Computer Games Association Journals:

ICGA journal Vol. 27. No. 4 - December 2004 = The 2004 Gothic Chess Computer World Championship.
ICGA journal Vol. 27, No. 2 - June 2004 = 80-Square Chess

Also one is available as a download from...
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/330e/6cada5af2191248e09b5910527744592e10d.pdf

The Gothic Chess Federation produced their own boards and pieces, ran tournaments, offered scholarships, sold a program that played the game, had an online playing website for at least three years, published a magazine 4 times a year (Gothic Chess Review) and was a robust organization.

I think the variant deserves a better explanation than what is presently online. I am pretty sure Panzerschiff on here (John) can confirm at least the fact he and I played correspondence Gothic Chess as far back as 2005. You can still see some articles being hosted online talking about some of our activities:

Susan Polgar's announcement of Fischer vs. Karpov
http://web.chessdailynews.com/fischer-vs-karpov-it-could-finally-happen/

Our 6'5" supermodel PR spokesperson Alexis Skye
https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/alexis-skye.html
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/chessninja/january.html
http://www.impalapublications.com/blog/index.php?/archives/625-Gothic,-by-James-OFee.html

Articles from Chessville.com

https://archive.is/HtOE1
https://archive.is/nFVqQ

My suggestion is to allow me to rewrite the present introduction and description for the game. It deserves a little more than what is on there now, don't you think?

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