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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Sep 21, 2017 12:35 AM UTC:

Yes, he recently teamed up with Jean-Louis Cazaux to write a book about Chess variants. It's called A World of Chess, it will be published next month, and it's listed on this page.

JT K wrote on Thu, Sep 21, 2017 12:14 AM UTC:

Fergus, there's a guy on YouTube who talks about boards and pieces for variant games, and not just shogi etc. but an example being Shuuro. His YT account name is AncientChess. Maybe he is still in operation?

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Sep 20, 2017 09:50 PM UTC:

Does anyone know of any items I should add to this page? On a wide screen, this page has two columns side-by-side that each begin with three parallel search results. Then below the search results are various selected items. I know there are more Xiangqi and Shogi items, but I decided not to overdo it on those. I'm mainly looking for books or equipment on either particular or multiple Chess variants.

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