Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Michael Nelson wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2004 04:10 PM UTC:Assuming you could even have such a patent, it would be invalid because of prior art. See <a href='http://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/dao.html'>here</a> for Jim Aikin's Dragons, Archers, and Oxen which was published on these pages in 1998, for example. I'm also fairly certain he wasn't the first to use a common name like 'Archer' for a CV piece. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID NAME CHANGE does not match any item.