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George Duke wrote on Mon, Apr 5, 2004 03:41 PM UTC:Poor ★
'Horus', in conjunction with Chess, is not original to this game, far
from being Peter Aronson's idea. The game description's first line,
'Horus named for the Egyptian God who bears the title Falcon of the
Horizon and who was sometimes depicted as having a Falcon head,' figures
recurrently in my Chess poetry since year 2000.  In 'Castle Early' I
write about 'Falcon-headed Horus.'  In 'Chess Morality IV Promotion':
'From chimeral horizon unto zenith'--referring to Horus.  In 'CM IX
Sacrifice': 'Falcon head.'  In 'CM X': 'Above the Pyramid, the Eye
of Horus, the Falcon god.' In 'CM XI': 'Falcon and ankh'(of Horus). 
And so on, the Falcon-Horus image still being developed to
support Falcon Chess. (US Patent 5690334)Fiction like poetry is unusual for CVP,
but takes a lot more work I have found than mere write-ups of game rules. 
I object to this game's being called Horus, albeit for a small chess, as a 
matter of courtesy.  It usurps the name Horus just as disrespectfully as taking 
the name of an existing game for one's own--not up to Chess Variant Page's usual
standards. The 'Good' simply reflects that 44-sq. Falcon ZRF is
reasonable trainer in what is the first of the four fundamental Western
game pieces. And three of them even may interact with Bishop and Knight.
(N.B., not fully amplified in Complete Permutation Chess, Falcon is 
first of the four R-N-B-F in that they are implicit in F, not vice versa.)

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