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Aberg variation of Capablanca's Chess. Different setup and castling rules. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Sep 21, 2004 02:24 AM UTC:

Since I'm working on updating my Chess,_Large.zrf file today, I was paying
more attention to the various games in it, and I started tripping up over
Aberg's variation. In this ZRF, which I originally wrote in 1998, I
implemented both Aberg's variation, or what I thought was his variation,
and a Capablanca variation of my own. When I originally wrote the ZRF,
this page did not exist, and I based my ZRF on the description which is
now at 

http://www.chessvariants.org/misc.dir/chessmods.html

I've just noticed that this old description has a contradiction in it.
The text description places the Chancellor on the Queen's side and the
Archbishop on the King's side, but the diagram reverses this. I based the
ZRF on the diagram, and my own Capablanca variation just reversed the
positions of Chancellor and Archbishop. Since this page agrees with the
old text and not with the old diagram, I take it that my variation was
actually Aberg's variation.

Furthermore, Pritchard's description of Carrera's Chess contradicts the
description on this website. Pritchard points out that Murray reversed the
names of the Champion and Centaur, and our page on Carrera's Chess was
based on John Gollon, who probably got his information from Murray. I
trust Pritchard more than Gollon or Murray, and so I take his description
of the game as more authoritative.

Therefore, it appears that Carrera's Chess, Aberg's Capablanca
variation, and my Capablanca variation all have the same setup. It looks
like my least original variant ever is even less original than I thought
it was. :)