Etymology

Balbo's game

Today it means: A variant of the game of chess, with a novel board shape with 70 squares, and each player commanding a full chess army minus one pawn. There is no castling, and promotion squares are specially defined. Full definition →

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The story

Invented by G. Balbo in 1974.

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