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Ultima. Game where each type of piece has a different capturing ability. Also called Baroque. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Jan 22, 2004 11:15 PM EST:
The Wikipedia page on Baroque Chess currently asserts that Robert Abbott
did not invent the game, as can be discovered by reading the Fairy
Chessmen by Lewis Padgett. I expect this is a bunch of nonsense and have
explained why in the discussion area for Wikipedia's Baroque Chess page.
However, I have not read the Fairy Chessmen and cannot get ahold of a
copy. If anyone has read it, would you take a moment to either confirm my
suspicions or to tell me how Ultima is described in this book? If someone
will confirm my suspicions that the Wikipedia author doesn't know what he
is talking about, I will go ahead and change that page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_chess