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Constitutional Characters. A systematic set of names for Major and Minor pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]H. J. R. Murray used the word 'orthogonal' in the sense that we modern variantists do in 'A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess' (1952) in his description of Tablut on page 63. In his 'A History of Chess' (1917), I was unable to find the use of the word 'orthogonal'. He instead uses the phrase 'horizontal or vertical'.