Author: Keith Evans
Date: 16:51:15 01/09/04
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On January 08, 2004 at 19:09:28, Ed Trice wrote:
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>>It costs $2,520 to have a patent reexamined, ex parte.
>>It costs $8,800 to have a patent reexamined, in parte.
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>Not even a week's pay if you add them together.
See now you're baiting him...
You should be aware of the following link:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:wtangel%40well.sf.ca.us&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=29724%40well.sf.ca.us&rnum=17
In my opinion the post and program establishes prior art for programs (engine +
primitive GUI) which can play Capablanca chess, and which can use commands to
edit the starting position, and can indeed save and restore games and starting
positions.
I don't know why you would care about licensing such programs, but there you go.
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"From: William Thomas Angel (wtangel@well.sf.ca.us)
Subject: Re: Chess variants
View: Complete Thread (10 articles)
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Date: 1992-01-30 01:43:50 PST
On the subject of "Chess Variants", I thought I would pass along
this DOC file from a chess program (GNU CHESSS) that has been modified
to play this variant. A compiled version is available for the IBM PC.
What is the "Capablanca Deviation"?
Jose Raul Capablanca (1888-1942) was a Cuban chess master who
suggested,starting in 1925, certain changes to the game primarily
to make it less "bookish" and less likely for play to end in draws.
He published an interview/article in 1929 (discussed in the book
"Capablanca" by Edward Winter) an excerpt from which is presented
below. He states that his objective is
...to introduce in the game new forces which would necessarily
throw the players on to their own resources, and give much
greater scope to the imagination and to the creative power of
the individual player.
My own suggestions involve the introduction of new pieces
upon the board: the Chancellor, combining the moves of the
bishop and knight; and the Marshall combining the moves of
the rook and the knight. This means to say that the Chancellor
may be used either as a bishop or a knight for any move
according to the will of the player, while the Marshall in the
same way can be used as a rook or a knight. The introduction
of the two pieces would of course mean a [larger] board and
two extra pieces on each side. But it would not entail any
alteration of the rules.
The great advantage which this proposal has....is that it
infinitely increases the chances of sacrificial combinations; that
it tremendously multiplies the few mysteries left in chess....thus
making the game once more... a pastime in which there is always
something to be learned and in which not memory only but
foresight, imagination, resourcefulness are in constant demand.
[end of excerpt]
-- Bill Angel
Internet: wtangel@well.sf.ca.us"
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