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Anonymous wrote on Sat, Oct 5, 2002 08:07 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Thank you for your comments.

I have very little knowledge of the game at present and have no ideas of
my own on which rules to use.  I do like historical authenticity so I find
your suggestion of using rules from 1563 highly attractive.

While there may be other historical sources, the study of which may well
be of great interest as time goes by, I feel that it would be a good idea
to have the 1563 game manual which you suggest as the rules for a first
game (and maybe for others later) so as to get a game started.  As it is a
fun game if a situation arises which those rules do not cover then
research on other historical sets of rules could follow to try to resolve
the situation, that being all part of the learning fun.

So, to set the process going, could you please say which pieces are needed
for black and which pieces are needed for white and whether play is on a
plain board or on a chequered board, so that I can start the process of
making some gif files for diagrams.

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