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Falcon Chess: Background and Patent Text Excerpts. With background summary of chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Larry Smith wrote on Sat, Nov 15, 2008 11:16 PM UTC:

There is also a Falcon in Tori Shogi, a late 18th century game.

So there seems to be quite a number of prior uses of this particular nomenclature.