[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ][ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ][ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]Single Comment [Subject Thread] [Add Response] Daniil Frolov wrote on Wed, Apr 18, 2018 09:11 AM UTC:Searching some information about russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, I found out about his devotion to chess, which correspondend his fondness to precision. "Chess is the music of the mind" - he said. He is also known for beating the future chess champions José Raúl Capablanca 1 out of 3 times in a simultaneous exhibition match in 1914. But, on to the subject of this website, being young, Prokofiev wished to invent a new form of chess. At first he attempted to creat "a chess on a hexagonal board that would have hexagonal cells as well". But the invention were "not thought-out for movement of Rook and Bishop were unexpectedly alike, while the movement of pawn were totally unclear". And finally he came up with 24x24 chess with nine sets of pieces. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to find any further information about his inventions, but, from the description of Rook and Bishop movement, I assume, it could be something like Gilman's AltOrth Hex Chess. Or, another possibility, the Rook could be the one we get used to in hex variations, but bishop differing from it differing in some unexpected way (say, it could be Dababah-rider). Yet, I'm thinking of AltOrth assumption as of more likely. It seems we only able to guess. UPD: Oh, sorry for posting it into the wrong thread. I attempted to create my own thread, but it seems too glitchy.
