[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ][ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ][ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]Single Comment Grotesque Chess. A variant of Capablanca's Chess with no unprotected Pawns. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] 🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Sep 22, 2004 05:14 PM UTC:George Duke writes: Fergus Duniho correctly points this assortment of pieces goes back 500 yrs.(Regina Rabiosa's debut), so hardly original. No, I didn't mention anything earlier than Carrera's Chess, which is just under 400 years old. I don't know what Regina Rabiosa is. [EDIT: I now realize that Regina Rabiosa is Latin for Mad Queen, one of the original epithets for Modern Chess.]
George Duke writes:
No, I didn't mention anything earlier than Carrera's Chess, which is just under 400 years old. I don't know what Regina Rabiosa is.
[EDIT: I now realize that Regina Rabiosa is Latin for Mad Queen, one of the original epithets for Modern Chess.]