Timeline for What are the origins of Hand & Brain chess?
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| Jul 1, 2023 at 13:50 | comment | added | Cyriac Antony | Has anyone contacted Alexandra Kosteniuk regarding this? Evenif she doesn't know, she could point to a person who is more familiar with it. | |
| Jul 1, 2023 at 13:03 | comment | added | Cyriac Antony | @MobeusZoom Interesting variant. I had a similar idea, but for human chess. The purpose was to make a chess-themed fun-event. Apart from people who stand as pieces, white and black have two councellors who decides which of their pieces move at their turn. The move itself is decided by the "piece". | |
| May 23, 2022 at 4:06 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Apr 30, 2022 at 15:38 | comment | added | Mobeus Zoom | @RauanSagit It's a shame no-one has been able to answer properly in spite of your large bounties. I'll keep searching and maybe useful info will turn up at some point. It could be worth reaching out to a chess historian (unfortunately Pritchard himself has passed away) or to one of these GMs mentioned in these references (Alexandra Kosteniuk, Simon Williams, ...). Sometimes part of the search has to be done by word-of-mouth | |
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| Apr 24, 2022 at 19:22 | comment | added | user2001 | Perhaps @MobeusZoom can post an answer, a best guess or claim unknown origin. Seems like key data is missing to solve this mystery. | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 2:14 | comment | added | Mobeus Zoom | By Tandem Chess I refer not to Bughouse but to Tandem/Alternation chess, which again I mentioned in my first post, where the players take turns moving (on the same board). Pritchard identified the origins of this variant. This is not mentioned on Wikipedia and I don't know that it is more popular than Hand & Brain. | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 1:53 | comment | added | DialFrost | Tandem chess is different, it is way more popular than hand&brain chess, plus hand and brain chess does not even show up in wikipedia | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 1:46 | comment | added | Mobeus Zoom | @DialFrost Presumably you'd say the same about Tandem Chess, but Pritchard was able to identify its history back to an 1875 journal. There's no reason to believe it's impossible to do similar for Hand & Brain | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 1:41 | comment | added | DialFrost | This question (most probably) cannot be answered | |
| Apr 22, 2022 at 2:52 | answer | added | DialFrost | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 21, 2022 at 23:16 | answer | added | ferdy | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 21, 2022 at 18:30 | comment | added | ShadYantra | I cn address about inspiration but people from perian Euro Chess community will start thrashing me.. | |
| S Apr 20, 2022 at 23:18 | history | bounty started | CommunityBot | ||
| S Apr 20, 2022 at 23:18 | history | notice added | user2001 | Draw attention | |
| S Jun 8, 2021 at 2:02 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S Jun 8, 2021 at 2:02 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| May 31, 2021 at 21:42 | comment | added | David | It's not too complicated of a variant so it's perfectly possible that it appeared in several places independently | |
| May 31, 2021 at 0:12 | comment | added | user2001 | I am a huge fan of Hand & Brain chess. I played it several times, online as well as OTB. It is a great way of playing with several players of different levels. It also has its own interesting dynamics. As well as exciting time scrambles. I also wonder about its origins. I started a bounty, let's see if someone can claim the points. | |
| S May 31, 2021 at 0:09 | history | bounty started | CommunityBot | ||
| S May 31, 2021 at 0:09 | history | notice added | user2001 | Authoritative reference needed | |
| May 9, 2021 at 20:54 | history | edited | Mobeus Zoom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 9, 2021 at 7:10 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Just an anecdotal data point without hard references, but I have definitely played it in college before 2010... | |
| May 9, 2021 at 1:44 | history | asked | Mobeus Zoom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |