<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A large chess variant played on a 12x12 board was inadvertently created by G. H. Verney, author of <italic>Chess Eccentricities</italic>, who seriously misinterpreted one of his sources, A. van der Linde’s <italic>Quellenstudien zur Geschichte des Schachspiels</italic>. Despite its serendipitous origins, the game, for which the name Verney’s Duodecimal Chess seems appropriate, is surprisingly playable. A set of rules is suggested since those provided by Verney are incomplete.</p></abstract>

A large chess variant played on a 12x12 board was inadvertently created by G. H. Verney, author of Chess Eccentricities, who seriously misinterpreted one of his sources, A. van der Linde’s Quellenstudien zur Geschichte des Schachspiels. Despite its serendipitous origins, the game, for which the name Verney’s Duodecimal Chess seems appropriate, is surprisingly playable. A set of rules is suggested since those provided by Verney are incomplete.

A game that never was: Verney’s duodecimal chess

Board Game Studies Journal

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A large chess variant played on a 12x12 board was inadvertently created by G. H. Verney, author of Chess Eccentricities, who seriously misinterpreted one of...

A game that never was: Verney’s duodecimal chess

Published Online: Nov 08, 2019

Page range: 15 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bgs-2019-0002

Keywords
Chess history, chess variants, serendipity

© 2019 Georgi Markov, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A game that never was: Verney’s duodecimal chess

Published Online: Nov 08, 2019

Page range: 15 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bgs-2019-0002

KeywordsChess history, chess variants, serendipity

© 2019 Georgi Markov, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Chess history, chess variants, serendipity