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Pick the Piece Big Chess. In this customizable game, players decide on the pieces to fill two empty slots and those to be dropped during play. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Charles Daniel wrote on Fri, May 9, 2008 12:42 AM UTC:
As anyone who reads the description of Pick the Big Piece can ascertain, both sides agree on what pieces they choose to play with and what should be dropped. It is suggested that both sides use the 'same armies'. The pieces in the main presets have all been a mix of my pieces and 'open source' pieces. 
The new preset with 1 Falcon to be dropped for each side was made with understanding that this experimental preset was allowed by the patent owner for the benefit of others  as per comment regarding the use of bison (a piece clearly made long before the patent!). 



It should be quite clear to anyone that this game does NOT depend on this preset. I have absolutely no interest in the Falcon piece nor its patent - only in 'open source' chess pieces. 
I only hope that the verbiage in patent does not include pieces like Zebra and camel compounds. 

A simple request to remove the preset would suffice, which is what I shall do.