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Modern Chess. Variant on a 9 by 9 board with piece that combines bishop and knight moves. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It is interesting Maura has old tome 'Mathematical Thesis For Modern Chess'. Maura seems to be reacting against 9x9 Chancellor Chess' unbalancing Bishops in keeping them on same colour instead. '9x9' is not that popular size in number of attempts and seems awkward. Yet most games turn out well (better than this Modern) on 9x9. '9x9' must have the highest percentage disproportionately worth 'Excellent' of any particular size-grouping. Who knows why? Maybe because Shogi is so bad from a worldwide perspective, and anything else on 9x9 has to be improvement. Some Excellent CVs on precisely 9x9: Weave & Dungeon, Altair, The Travelers, Coherent, Bifocal, Sissa, Hanga Roa. Good or Very Good CVs on 9x9: Achernar, Kristensen's, Melee, Canonical, 9x9 Squares Rotating, Rotary, Chesquerque, Symmetric Sissa, Three Fat Brothers, Nine-Square. One and all size 9x9 and well worth manufacturing.