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Subject: Re: To Ed Trice: Free legal advice

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 23:47:41 01/08/04

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Hello Keith,

>
>On another note - I don't understand why you wouldn't protect your piece design
>itself given the amount of investment that you have made there. I guess that
>this somehow all works out in your business plan.

We do not want to be in the piece making business -- we want to license this to
other entities and let them produce their own sets.

>Anyways given the amount of effort you have apparently put into this I wish you
>luck. There are so many variants that it would be interesting to hear about how
>you chose to investigate Capablanca's variant, and then alter it.

You can take a look at....

http://www.GothicChess.org/long_answer.html

....then scroll down to the "Frying Pan Set" and you will see what caused me to
change Capa's setup, and the panic that set in when I realized Capa's 80 square
board was biased heavily in white's favor.



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