Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Rich Hutnik wrote on Thu, Aug 6, 2009 06:30 PM EDT:Near Chess is here: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSnearchess Near vs Normal Chess is here: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSnearvsnormalch John K Lewis had suggested ideas found in Near Chess, but then chopped off the ends that were vacated, and was the first run at Simplified Chess. The board then became 8x7 and the final version of Simplified. I believe a Simplified Chess board is a good addition to the world of Chess variants. I did disagree with Mr. Lewis chopping off the last row in the initial Simplified Chess. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID MultiFormations does not match any item.