George Duke wrote on Wed, Mar 15, 2017 08:19 PM UTC:
Zubrin got his board patented to show who invented it. Most applications get rejected after year-long background check of "prior art." In informal NextChess project, Three Player has been ranked in the top ten: " (1) Bifurcators > (2) Great Shatranj > (3) Time Travel > (4) Mastodon > (5) Three Player > (6) Unicorn Great > (7) Sissa > (8) Big Board > (9) Eurasian (10) Schoolbook ."
Zubrin got his board patented to show who invented it. Most applications get rejected after year-long background check of "prior art." In informal NextChess project, Three Player has been ranked in the top ten: " (1) Bifurcators > (2) Great Shatranj > (3) Time Travel > (4) Mastodon > (5) Three Player > (6) Unicorn Great > (7) Sissa > (8) Big Board > (9) Eurasian (10) Schoolbook ."