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The Emperor's Game. Variant on 10 by 10 board from 19th century Germany. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
John Ayer wrote on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 12:49 AM UTC:
L. Tressan, or perhaps Tressau, also invented a slightly larger variant,
the Sultan's Game, on this website at
http://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/sultan.html .

Jose Carrillo wrote on Sun, Jun 15, 2008 03:28 PM UTC:
The Emperors Game is one of the original variants to display some of the 'Modern' principles: Reverse Symmetry and symmetric castling to either flank of the board.

Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2020 01:08 AM UTC:

I have rewritten most of this page with updated information from Jean-Louis Cazaux's excellent new book A World of Chess, co-authored with Rick Knowlton. The previous version had incorrectly identified the author of a book on chess variants as the game's inventor. Additional historical information has also been added.


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2020 11:39 AM UTC:

The name of the German author is Tressau, not Tressan. I know, it's confusing because the original book was written in gothic script and the u and the n are very similar (although slightly different). Here is a u, so Tressau.


Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2020 03:12 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 11:39 AM:

Thank you for the correction. I have updated both this page and the Sultan's Game page.


H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, May 11, 2021 02:03 PM UTC:
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The Emperor's Game


Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, May 11, 2021 05:20 PM UTC:

The new setup is mistaken, the Knights are between the Rooks and the Bishops, and the Bishops are on different colours, compare p. 77 in the book by L. Tressan here: https://books.google.de/books?id=n64UAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false


H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, May 11, 2021 05:50 PM UTC in reply to Jörg Knappen from 05:20 PM:

Oops, sorry. I just cloned the diagram for The Sultan's Game and removed the Marshall, without realizing the Sultan's game swaps the a-side N and B compared to their orthodox position. I fixed this now. For the castling I still have to figure out a solution.


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