Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Joe Joyce wrote on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 06:04 PM UTC:Fergus, my objections were, to a great extent, pro forma. But the fact is that my variant is deliberately named 'Grand' to refer to Mr. Freeling's game, and I made that clear in my write-up. I deliberately copied the setup to solve the problems I felt existed with my 10x8 variant because I think the Grand Chess board and setup is an elegant solution to those problems. What I didn't want was people to see presets for Grand Shatranj and think: 'Oh, great, here's some idiot that didn't get the message, even though it's in black and white' (even though on my machine it's in black lettering on a grey background). Wow, there are several messages here, while I'm typing this - sorry, Fergus, saw your comment between my answer to christine and edited it to name her rather than have it look like a reply to your comment (this is getting convoluted). Okay, back to the original topic. Whatever that was. I truly don't see a problem with naming something after something else under these conditions: 1) with appropriate permission; 2) if even the direct descendants of the inventor are unaware they are the heirs. In this case, they can't come after you. :-) Okay, if the origins of the name are lost in antiquity might be a better rule. Gary, if it was good enough, and it followed #1 & 2 above well, heck, do it - you playtested Grand Shatranj I enough! And thanks for that. And, finally, Christine, no, I'm just a plodder with no creativity... Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Grand Shatranj does not match any item.