George Duke wrote on Thu, Nov 13, 2014 04:38 PM UTC:
What was happening 10 years ago to the day?
http://www.chessvariants.org/dpieces.dir/maxima/maxima.html, Maxima,
cousin of Ultima.
Maxima by Venezuelan mathematician Roberto Lavieri has three possible win
conditions. The Mage, as griffion or Gryphon, or several other spellings is first used over 700 years ago in Spanish Grande Acedrex, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/acedrex.html.