Transcendental chess [SEP] discoverer or inventor
Transcendental Chess
Transcendental Chess (TC) is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Maxwell Lawrence. Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) is similar but has fewer starting positions. In Transcendental Chess the beginning positions of the pieces on the back row are randomly determined, with the one restriction that the bishops be on opposite-colored squares. There are 8294400 such positions in total. In Chess960 there are 960 possible starting positions, but that is because the king must be located between the rooks and both sides must have the same
calculation machines, inventor of the automatic chess, pioneer of remote control, designer of the funicular over the Niagara Falls
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