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Abecedarian Big Chess (ABChess). Buy-your-own-army variant on a big board; 26 piece types. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Peter Aronson wrote on Tue, Nov 26, 2002 09:26 PM UTC:
I did a search on 'Xebec' on Google, and found <a href='http://www.geocities.com/xebecinc/gyakos.html'>this page</a> devoted to the subject. Among other things, the author references a German monograph on the subject, which reveals that xebec in German is <i>schebekke</i>.