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But I still haven't learned how to incorporate a previous message or parts of it.

Hi Georgi,

The easiest way, (and the way I use), is to switch the format from Markdown to WYSIWYG.  Then click the quotation marks from the toolbar to enter blockquote mode.  Then copy the text you want to quote from the section above the edit form and paste it in.  Hitting the enter key twice will exit blockquote mode so you can start typing your response.

Hi Georgi,

The easiest way, (and the way I use), is to switch the format from Markdown to WYSIWYG.  Then click the quotation marks from the toolbar to enter blockquote mode.  Then copy the text you want to quote from the section above the edit form and paste it in.  Hitting the enter key twice will exit blockquote mode so you can start typing your response.

Thanks a lot Greg! 

 I'll provide a link when it's published.

And here it is: 

https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/bgs-2022-0017

@Georgi Markov

Thanks for your publication on Sultansspiel and Kaiserspiel, and special thanks for publishing it in an open access journal. Now I finally know where that ominous "Ludwig Tressau" comes from.

However, I think that the common publishing place Leipzig is not suitable to draw far-reaching conclusions: At that time, Leipzig was the hub of German book publication and had the largest concentration of publication houses all over Germany. Also, Ludwig is the most probable expansion of the initial L. and may be an interpolation by Oettinger. The second most probable expansion would be Louise or Luise, a feminine name, and the fact that the author hides consistently behind the initial makes this possibility even more probable.

Having said this, Tressan is an extremely rare surname in Germany, and Tressau is even more obscure. I searched some huge databases of personal names (telephone directory and DNB Normdatei) and Tressan occurs once or twice, but Tressau has no hits at all. It should be feasible to identify that specific "L. Tressan/L. Tressau" using genealogical databases without sifting through too many hits.

Thank you very much for your comments!

You certainly have a point. It never occurred to me that Oettinger might have been just guessing, I assumed he knew the author's name from elsewhere and opted for "Tressau" even though the last letter looks a lot like "n" indeed. Plus the only Tressans I could find while surfing the web were French.

On an unrelated subject, I shamelessly appropriated your Archchancellor and Crown Princess for a reformed variant of the Duke of Rutland's chess based on Charles Gilman's Modern Manners, here: https://hal-univ-paris13.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03737330/document

(And of course the short superqueen suggested by Stefan Härtel and me for a reformed version of Turkish great chess is your Archchancellor again but I don't think I was aware of it when writing that paper). I think those two pieces (RNK and BNK) work really well on large boards.

Here is one genuine German Franz Tressan from Verden an der Aller: https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D110743078X

My pieces are free to reuse and I feel flattered that you like them.

@Georgi: I have also used the RNK and BNK here: https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/very-heavy-chess

And the use of RNF and BNW in Pocket Mutation Chess by Michael Nelson predates all of this, just their names a purely technical there (SuperCardinal and SuperChancellor). But I agree, these pieces play well on big boards.