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In article <3ehcrg$4b9@cello.gina.calstate.edu> Jocelyne M. Fine <jfine@cello.gina.calstate.edu> writes:
>any commercial potential.  So, is there a market out there for variants? 

No. 

After all, Kieseritzky, Capablanca and other masters did design
variations of chess. They never caught on. Lasker designed some
non-chess games with little success, I believe.

If there was a market, the fairy chess people would have cornered it
long ago -- they specialize in variants.

Perhaps you can tie the variant up with something else -- like Star
Wars.  I believe the 3D-chess that appears there has had some success
commercially.

But there's a fair chance that you've just re-invented a wheel. Try:

  World Game Review #10   --  Write to:      Michael Keller
                                             World Game Review
                                             1747 Little Creek Drive
                                             Baltimore, MD  21207

for a fairly comprehensive list (~$10) of chess variants - around 650,
I think.  Or John Gollon's "Chess Variations: Ancient, Regional, and
Modern" publ.  by Charles E. Tuttle. Or D.B. Pritchard's "Encyclopedia
of Chess Variants", available from

	GAMES & PUZZLES PUBLICATIONS
	P.O.Box 20
	Godalming, Surrey
	GU8 4YP   UNITED KINGDOM

for around GBP $22.00. 

Rec.games.chess is probably the right group for more discussion.

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