GAME OF CHESS
CHANGES PROPOSED BY CAPABLANCA LARGER BOARD AND MORE PIECES / (“Times” Cables.) (Rec. December 26, 9 p.m.) London, December 25. The former champion, J. R. Capablanca, recently made a suggestion that chess rules be altered to revitalise the game by making the board 100 instead of 64 squares, adding two pieces to each side, one with the powers of a rook-knight,, and the other a bishop-knight. S. S. Blackburne, a prominent chess player from New Zealand, and a croquet player, in a letter to “The Times,” says he has no fears that Capablanca’s proposal will supersede the present game of chess. It can exist side by side therewith, as has been demonstrated by alternative methods of playing croquet. Let those preferring tho existing form of chess continue it. Let the world’s championship aspirants decide whether they will follow the lines of Capablanca’s proposal or any other, provided it is legislatively sanctioned, giving all a fair trial, with properly-designed pieces.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 79, 27 December 1928, Page 3
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