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George Duke wrote on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 06:14 PM UTC:
1 CV out of 150 CVs. Maybe Ralph Betza will reincarnate as 100-square designer. Not likely but we can hope. This Outrigger is about the only Betza not on 64 squares. 150 CVs of Betza not 3-dimensional are 64 squares and nothing else. Staying exclusively with 64 squares was Betza's downfall. His obligatory ''variants'' at the end of each write-up do not change the board size either. It seems Gilman picked up where Betza left off. Gilman is the infinite-possibilities Betza. Scroll down Gilman's inventor's list and the sizes are all over the map: 72, 80, 90, 96, 100, 144, and plenty of dainty smaller than 64 ones too. Instead Betza's reads like the phone book pages of ''Jones'': 646464...

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