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Subject: Re: To Ed Trice: Free legal advice

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 23:29:24 01/09/04

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>You should be aware of the following link:
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>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
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>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.

Capablanca Chess and Gothic Chess are different.

There is no prior art for Gothic Chess because I was the first person to
separate the King and the Queen.

Capablanca has 3 diagonal pieces all in a row: Arcbishop, Bishop, and Queen.
They are all gunning in the vicinity of the undefended i-pawn, which means
castles kingside is suicide.

None of these gross imbalances exist in Gothic Chess.

THEY ARE DIFFERENT,  ok, as different as night is from day.

I  played Capablanca's chess half a dozen times a day for over a year, looking
for the way to draw as black that Capa found.

There is none.



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