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A Whole New World of Chess
"This game is for innovative gamers"
From Scrye Magazine November 1997

     " Global Chess boldly goes where no chess piece has gone before. The
board has no edges. By adapting a conventional 64-square chessboard to a
globe, splitting the globe into flat hemispheres, and gearing these
hemispheres directly together so that they can rotate, Global Chess lets you
play as if you were playing around a real globe. The center point of the
hemispheres, or disks, represent north and south poles and their edges
represent a global equator. The Ranks of a conventional board (horizontal
columns) are now arranged in circles around the poles. The Files (vertical
columns) radiate outward from the poles.
You can rotate the disks, as you wish, so that any piece may move from one
disk to the another over the equator.

     By moving the disks around, you can see the relationship of pieces that
seem to be so far away from each other at first. When I first saw the
beautiful aluminum version,which will be available later this year, I
thought that it was one of those pretty to look at, but impossible to play
chess variants that you see so often. It is pretty to look at and would make
a great conversation piece, but thankfully it also works as a game.

     I have played a lot of traditional chess and it took me a while to get
used to the Global board. You have to spend some time moving the pieces
around and setting up situations, to help you visualize what is going on.
The rules that come with the game do a good job of getting you
started.Children seem to pick up the global relationship much more quickly
than adults, so y it might be helpful to find a youngster to help you out.

     This game is for innovative gamers. It provides you with a game that
has no strategic principles, yet because it is so new, you will quickly find
that most chess principles do not work the same way on this board. At this
stage, the game is one of pure tactics, but as it is played more I would
expect theories and strategies to become evident.
If you want to be in on something new that I think will stand the test of
time, try Global Chess. If your brain gets fried playing Global Chess, keep
in mind that you can use the same board for a wild game of Global Checkers.
"
-Mike Fitzgerald