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Horus. Game with Royal Falcons where all pieces start off board and most captures return pieces to owner's hand. (7x7, Cells: 44) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Michael Nelson wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2004 04:27 PM UTC:

George,

I understand that you have devoted a great deal of time and effort to
perfecting Falcon Chess and that you passionately love your creation--as a
CV designer I can relate to that. But your are letting your passion blind
you when you go to the extreme of accusing Peter Aronson of theft--he
invents a game using your Falcon piece using a perfectly obvious name for
the game and your scream bloody murder. His game calls favorable attention
to the piece, the helping your game and not harming it, and your response
is to engage in character assassination.

I note that you collaborated with Peter on (or at least approved of)
Complete Permutation Chess. But a variant he invents without your
participation is theft? Do you honestly think that you own the rights to
any and every CV that uses the Falcon piece, the word 'falcon' or the
name 'Horus'? If anyone ever finds a reason to challenge your patent
(not that anyone will--no one makes money on CV's), a good patent
attorney will rip your claims to shreds.