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i made the original piececlopedia pages for the ultima pieces many years ago. at the time i was really just trying to take the pieces out of the context of ultima - with which they are so closely associated - because i hoped that people might try combining them with other chess and fairy chess pieces, which indeed they have (altho i don't know that it's necessarily because of my pages). also, if mr. abbott was accessible via the internet at that time, i wasn't aware of it - in other words, i didn't talk to him at all about the game and so i just assumed he had invented all the pieces. <P> i'm not familiar with the games jorg mentioned except tafl, but based on his description of them, none of these games have any historical connection with chess. so even if abbott is not the inventor of the pincer pawn's method of capture or the first to use it in a game context, it seems he is still the first to use it in a chess variant, for whatever that's worth. <P> at any rate, several months ago i typed up a list of piece pages i want to update / redo, and the PP is already on that list, so i'll make sure i correct the error when i get to it (could be awhile tho).