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The weird T-shaped board did not infringe USP5690334. 8x10 and larger infringes if having all, or almost all, the piece-types. If wanting to use Falcon, Joe, use Antoine's Fourriere's Bifocal Chess as model acceptable mostly because only 8x8. USP5690334 extends rights to what Peter Aronson(but not lawyers, hey I am mathematician too and no lawyer) calls 'supersets' and also to other 'equivalent' coverage. Abdul-Rahman Sibahi has approval for any number of FC Presets from his Comment recently at Falcon Chess. Exception to 8x8 is his Energizer F-Chess, yet okay for Preset, because of having every piece of 8x10 being covered by patent(doctrine of equivalents). Aronson still has approval for Complete Permutation Chess, viewable outside CVPage only. Intricate subject appropriate for Falcon Chess, not this offensive, design-on-the-fly AOF chameleonic pseudo-experiment. I do not really consider AOF an 'invention', but instead Gilman technique to take hand in other good work by whatever he feels like cooking up from day to day. We have used the noun a 'Gilman', meaning an obscurity, and everyone understands. Now arises the verb 'to Gilman', namely, to try expropriating with mis-attribution or without recognition of anyone else's proprietary right or merit. (The 'inventive step', why I for my part rated it 'Below Average' once, in original AOF was precisely the T-shaped board and the Crocodile both now oddly disappeared.)