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William Overington wrote on Thu, Jun 20, 2002 06:00 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Looking at http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/carrera.html which is
the Carrera's Chess page I notice that both Queens are on a square of their
own colour at the start of play.

Looking at the start up position in the Java applet of
http://chessvariants.com/play/erf/CarreraC.htm I notice that neither Queen
is on a square of her own colour at the start of play.

Does anyone by any chance have access to reproductions of any illustrations
from the 1617 book please so that the matter may be determined historically
please?

I have recently been devising some code point and illustration pairings of
Unicode code points and chess symbols. 

I have now added some more code points so as to include the Champion and
the Centaur of Carrera's Chess.

I have published these in the hope that that might lead to some Unicode
compatible chess founts being produced, perhaps including the Carrera
pieces.

The first document is at the following address.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/chess.htm

The second document is at the following address.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/chess2.htm

Both documents are available from the index at the following address.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/golden.htm

The index page of the webspace is as follows.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo

As I am interested in typography I am interested to know what designs the
1617 book suggested for the Champion and the Centaur (if indeed any).  Does
anyone know please?

William Overington

20 June 2002

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