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Wazir origination pre-modern Chess provokes re-look at officially-sanctioned minimal topic of Chess history. Chess Cafe Archives on history of Chess links work from here:
http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm. The two to note are Burt Hochberg's 'Perspectives,' which lasted a year 1997-1998, and Tim Harding's 'The Kibitzer.' In fact, Hochberg's first two installments are on variations of Chess historically.
http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#Perspectives.
Harding's December 1998 the same time period is on free castling as revising, or reverting, their trite, stale monotony: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz31.txt. Instead, for the most part, grandmasters must still think their game sprang from Dryads,
http://www.chessdryad.com/caissa/caissa.htm.
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The first one Tetraktys is just 9 cells: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=25183.