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The Sultan's Game. Variant on 11 by 11 board from 19th century Germany. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Georgi Markov wrote on Sun, Dec 5, 2021 03:41 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Thu Dec 2 07:30 PM:

My comment here on Oct 20th was in reply to your previous one in fact. But I still haven't learned how to incorporate a previous message or parts of it.


📝Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Dec 5, 2021 06:20 PM UTC in reply to Georgi Markov from 03:41 PM:

But I still haven't learned how to incorporate a previous message or parts of it.

Hi Georgi,

The easiest way, (and the way I use), is to switch the format from Markdown to WYSIWYG.  Then click the quotation marks from the toolbar to enter blockquote mode.  Then copy the text you want to quote from the section above the edit form and paste it in.  Hitting the enter key twice will exit blockquote mode so you can start typing your response.


Georgi Markov wrote on Sun, Dec 5, 2021 06:48 PM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 06:20 PM:

Hi Georgi,

The easiest way, (and the way I use), is to switch the format from Markdown to WYSIWYG.  Then click the quotation marks from the toolbar to enter blockquote mode.  Then copy the text you want to quote from the section above the edit form and paste it in.  Hitting the enter key twice will exit blockquote mode so you can start typing your response.

Thanks a lot Greg! 


Georgi Markov wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2022 09:24 AM UTC in reply to Georgi Markov from Mon Oct 25 2021 04:37 PM:

 I'll provide a link when it's published.

And here it is: 

https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/bgs-2022-0017


Jörg Knappen wrote on Sun, Jan 1, 2023 07:24 AM UTC in reply to Georgi Markov from Fri Oct 14 2022 09:24 AM:

@Georgi Markov

Thanks for your publication on Sultansspiel and Kaiserspiel, and special thanks for publishing it in an open access journal. Now I finally know where that ominous "Ludwig Tressau" comes from.

However, I think that the common publishing place Leipzig is not suitable to draw far-reaching conclusions: At that time, Leipzig was the hub of German book publication and had the largest concentration of publication houses all over Germany. Also, Ludwig is the most probable expansion of the initial L. and may be an interpolation by Oettinger. The second most probable expansion would be Louise or Luise, a feminine name, and the fact that the author hides consistently behind the initial makes this possibility even more probable.

Having said this, Tressan is an extremely rare surname in Germany, and Tressau is even more obscure. I searched some huge databases of personal names (telephone directory and DNB Normdatei) and Tressan occurs once or twice, but Tressau has no hits at all. It should be feasible to identify that specific "L. Tressan/L. Tressau" using genealogical databases without sifting through too many hits.


Georgi Markov wrote on Mon, Jan 9, 2023 01:33 PM UTC in reply to Jörg Knappen from Sun Jan 1 07:24 AM:

Thank you very much for your comments!

You certainly have a point. It never occurred to me that Oettinger might have been just guessing, I assumed he knew the author's name from elsewhere and opted for "Tressau" even though the last letter looks a lot like "n" indeed. Plus the only Tressans I could find while surfing the web were French.

On an unrelated subject, I shamelessly appropriated your Archchancellor and Crown Princess for a reformed variant of the Duke of Rutland's chess based on Charles Gilman's Modern Manners, here: https://hal-univ-paris13.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03737330/document

(And of course the short superqueen suggested by Stefan Härtel and me for a reformed version of Turkish great chess is your Archchancellor again but I don't think I was aware of it when writing that paper). I think those two pieces (RNK and BNK) work really well on large boards.


Jörg Knappen wrote on Mon, Jan 9, 2023 03:06 PM UTC in reply to Georgi Markov from 01:33 PM:

Here is one genuine German Franz Tressan from Verden an der Aller: https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D110743078X

My pieces are free to reuse and I feel flattered that you like them.


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Jan 9, 2023 03:43 PM UTC in reply to Georgi Markov from 01:33 PM:

@Georgi: I have also used the RNK and BNK here: https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/very-heavy-chess


Jörg Knappen wrote on Mon, Jan 9, 2023 05:42 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 03:43 PM:

And the use of RNF and BNW in Pocket Mutation Chess by Michael Nelson predates all of this, just their names a purely technical there (SuperCardinal and SuperChancellor). But I agree, these pieces play well on big boards.


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