George Duke wrote on Thu, Feb 11, 2010 05:19 PM UTC:
Flowerman's ''Win the battle, lose the war,''
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24998,
sound like several earlier developments. This Megachess is like a battle inside a war, where each piece is a game. Also, Ramayana is like the outlier boards of Flowerman:
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/contest84/ramayanachess.html.
Split-up boards are nothing new here and become like three-dimensional:
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/contest84/tandem84.html.