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Ladorean Chess - Shaco Ladorean. Variation on Capablanca's Chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Wed, Nov 23, 2005 12:13 PM UTC:

Some 'Ladorean words' used have some simmilitudes with Esperanto. Is this language a kind of fictional dialect?

Bernhard U. Hermes wrote on Wed, Nov 23, 2005 04:00 PM UTC:

Thanks for asking, Roberto!

In fact, you come very close, it is more or less Interlingua, another auxiliary language, albeit with some reform suggestions incorporated from its more than 50 years history which didn`t make it into 'official' Interlingua. While continuity in an auxiliary language project may be a fine thing, for gaming purposes we liked to try out some new things in Ladorean, e.g. using 'sh' always for the same sound it signifies in English, unlike Interlingua, where often 'ch' is used for that sound as well. So, there are some differences mainly in spelling, the system of numbers and pronouns, but a fictional native of Ladorea would have no problems at all conversing with a native of 'Interlinguania'.

B.U.H.

Greg Strong wrote on Wed, Nov 23, 2005 05:44 PM UTC:

It would also be very easy to add support for this game to ChessV, a freeware program for playing Chess variants... (see: sourceforge.net/projects/chessv) Since it will only take a couple minutes to do, I will plan on adding it to the next version unless you would prefer I didn't.

Bernhard U. Hermes wrote on Wed, Nov 23, 2005 09:16 PM UTC:

Michael, Greg, I very much welcome ways to offer computer based playing for Ladorean Chess, so please just go on.

Michael, as I said in the text, I do not own a ZoG, so no need to send me a .zrf. As long as you use the rules as described here, it`s ok with me.

Editors, if you receive information about computer based playing for Ladorean chess, could you please update the section 'Computer Play'above?

B.U.H.

Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Sun, Dec 4, 2005 07:47 PM UTC:

To Greg Strong: You already have announced a new version of ChessV. Is there any time frame for this? My SMIRF needs strong opponents to verify its ideas.

Best regards, Reinhard.

🕸💡Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jan 9, 2006 05:06 PM UTC:

I missed Michael Howe's comment in November. I have now added both
Ladorean Chess and Embassy Chess to my Large Chess ZRF, and I have
uploaded the updated version to the Chess Variant Pages.

I have also fixed the inventor credit on this page, since I am the game's
inventor. It was originally under consideration as the form Grotesque Chess
would take. I discarded it after I settled on another setup for Grotesque
Chess, but Bernard read about it on the Grotesque Chess comment section,
and he liked it enough to pick it up, use it, and name it.

📝Bernhard Hermes wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:57 PM UTC:

No problems with this changed inventor credit from my side, even though I
think the comment by George Duke (2004-09-24) on the Grotesque Chess
discussion page, if his facts are correct, seems to indicate that
capablanca variants can't be truely invented anymore, maybe not even with
this particular castling rule. 

But when I was out to 'find', not necessarily 'invent', a suitable
variant, I did find it, as I already said in my game description, at the
place we now both wrote about. It was discarded version, and I picked it
up  - can't be said often enough.

Bernhard U. Hermes

ssbornik wrote on Sat, Sep 2, 2006 01:53 AM UTC:Average ★★★

nikelir wrote on Mon, Sep 4, 2006 07:38 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

barrycmster wrote on Tue, Sep 5, 2006 08:15 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

temnotak wrote on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 06:04 AM UTC:BelowAverage ★★

Gerd Meyer wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2007 10:01 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Tried it out (with a paper board and paper pieces) and like it a lot!

Making this 'discarded version' a published game, you did a good job.

Since I would never have found this setup hidden somewhere in the comments of another page, for me you are the inventor - first to publish it as opposed to only talk about it as a possibility, doesn't that make you the inventor legally? I think it is like that in other areas of intellectual property.