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Latrunculi duo milia et septum. Chess with rook/ferz & bishop/wazir substitutes for rooks and bishops.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This is really Poor unimaginative practice in several respects. There is no effort to cite precedents of previous use. As far back as Duke of Rutland's Chess year 1747 exists use of Crowned Rook(Rook+Ferz), and Logical Follow-up to Duke of Rutland's Chess recently has the Crowned Bishop(Bishop+Wazir). There would be a dozen other prior uses easily found in the West a few of which we may add later. [ ] No analysis, no justification, no game scores. The inventor does not even start a game to play, just throws up a Preset. Maybe it appears GGifford only has a rather nice name, 'Latrunculi' and finds any convenient embodiment as excuse to employ it. That one good feature, the name Latrunculi, has interesting Internet information not even attempted to be described or explained in the empty write-up.