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Colossus. Large-board chess with standard pieces and double the number of bishops, rooks and knights. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Mon, Jan 26, 2015 06:51 PM UTC:
Capablanca himself played Double Chess this way in the 1920s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Chess. Obviously there would be

thousands of ways to arrange and re-arrange this one piece mix
of 64 units..  There could easily be one "Double Chess" for every

resident of  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nelson_Pillsbury Somerville, Massachusetts USA, Pillsbury's birthplace up to 75,000 now.