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Subject: Re: How many chess engines come up with the windmill?

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 07:19:10 06/18/04

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>
>Your Chancellor isn't new, in fact(under another name) it was used in orthodox
>chess in the Middle Ages, both in Europe and Russia. It came to an end in the
>18th century. Today this piece known in Fairy Chess is called an Amazon.
>
>Daniel

The Amazon is a Queen + Knight combined. The Chancellor is a Rook + Knight
combined. I am not sure what you are referring to in the first part of your
post.

I never claimed the Chancellor was "new". How could I when Pietro Carrera had an
80 square variant with this piece in 1617?

• Re: How many chess engines come up with the windmill? Daniel Jackson 08:27:52 06/18/04
  • Re: How many chess engines come up with the windmill? Ed Trice 09:10:18 06/18/04
    • Re: How many chess engines come up with the windmill? Daniel Jackson 11:22:24 06/18/04
      • Re: How many chess engines come up with the windmill? Ed Trice 18:10:20 06/18/04
        • Re: How many chess engines come up with the windmill? Daniel Jackson 01:15:25 06/19/04
          • Re: How many chess engines come up with the windmill? Ed Trice 08:22:47 06/19/04
            • I Don't Play Patzers ....Often Daniel Jackson 18:27:48 06/19/04
  • Re: How many chess engines come up with the windmill? Daniel Jackson 08:42:55 06/18/04

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