George Duke wrote on Sat, Oct 19, 2013 09:49 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago?
Http://www.chessvariants.org/small.dir/halloween-knight-court.html.
Where is the cook in Halloween Chess? So small as 3x3 must be cooked, broken, flawed, but probably no one has yet even looked.
Halloween is of course 31 October, as is anniversary of Houdini's death.
As Reformation Day from 31.October.1517, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation_Day, the date conforms closely to
the 500-year-old origin of Modern Western Chess.
Also ten years ago this month, new designer Charles Gilman's,
http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/gross-raumschach.html, Gross Raumschach.
Then also none other than Antoine Fouriere's Ravioli, Http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/ravioli-chess.html, ten years ago
Tuesday, Fourriere of the adjacent comment Bilateral Chess.