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Falcon Chess: Background and Patent Text Excerpts. With background summary of chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Not having found it in any prior art, I submit that 'Modified Free Castling' is invented and first appears in this methods Patent from 1997. Claim 6 reads: 'The method of claim 5 wherein said castling move allows said king to move two or more squares toward the rook and the rook to move over said king to the adjacent square.' Claim 7 reads: 'The method of claim 5 wherein said castling move allows said king to move one or more squares toward the rook and the rook to move over said king to the adjacent square.' Both Castling maneuvres thus restrict Rook's placement from the freer Italian Rules. Even today only one game duplicates the method for castling. MFC can be used in any CV, for it appears peripherally above as dependent claim. A related form is used in Super-Capablanca Chess(Pritchard's ECV) allowing King to move 2,3 or 4 on a larger board.[I approached MFC from a programming perspective C++ at the time, foreseeing problem of dual decision for placement of R and K]