George Duke wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 04:58 PM UTC:
What was happening 5 years ago? Lavieri explains the Travellers, that Christine Bagley-Jones currently mentions, 5 years ago to the day,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12190; and
Black's Xorix Shogi by Duniho interpretation, 5 years ago to the day,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=12204.
What was happening 3 years ago? 3 years ago to the day, more on the Turk automaton computer facsimile/fraud, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=18594.
What was happening 1 year ago? 1 year ago, more or less, Muller's scepticism here of Chess Different Armies, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24856, underwent conversion later upon Spartan Chess. Also, exchange today of Knappen and Muller bears on this earlier precis in its part '2)', the one about entire armies and other about piece trade-offs. /// Disclaimer: I rate well both Betza's C.D.A.(NextChess#30 provisional) and new Spartan of different two-king army versus fabulous f.i.d.e.