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Dear Ben,

Noble Chess will never be able to be played properly. To market Noble
chess, the company, have my designs but not the colours. To do so
would infringe my patent... GB2320205. The images are available, check
them out. I spent four years and many drawings trying to work out the
problem of the diagonal movements. All failed drawings are available.
They
have used the basic patern, so if you remove the playing pieces resting
circles and colour in the outlines in their game board with four seperate
colours. Two home colours, the same as a normal 8x8, 64 squared board.
Now
use two addittional colours as direction indicators for clockwise and
anti-clockwise movements for the diagonal movements on a circular board.
Then you have my chess varient. I checked their site tonight and they are
even using my title to this varient in their marketing blurb, Siege
Chess.
You must have the two extra colours as uniform for either left or right
diagonal movement.

If I was a rich man my variant would be in the market place today.
Because
of the nature of the now circular board, it may be translated into 3d in
even more variants. I am up to six so far. I plod along. 

You quoted a name which I cannot remember off hand as the originator of
the idea behind Noble Chess in a circular format. This is in error. The
basic source of circularizing all chess in a 64 squared board into a
circular format is Capablanca 8/12/1970/1. I cannot remember the exact
year. I would not have the patent except for Capablanca's error in his
ennumeration in trying to solve the basic problem of the diagonal
movement
translated onto a circular board, which becomes a spiral.


Tom.

tom@hair77.freeserve.co.uk.