V. R. Parton

V. R. Parton
V. R. Parton demonstrating 3D chess to a reporter for The Birmingham Post, 1957

Vernon Rylands Parton (1897–1974) was an English chess enthusiast and prolific chess variant inventor, his most renowned variant being Alice Chess.[1] Many of Parton's variants were inspired by the fictional characters and stories in the works of Lewis Carroll. Parton's formal education background, like Lewis Carroll's, was in mathematics.[2]

I have distinct memories of sitting on his knee and listening to these [Lewis Carroll] stories, and not a book in sight.
He had a favorite uncle, who was blind, and Vern was content to escort him around.
Vern never wanted to benefit financially from his work, but asked only for a contribution to charities for the blind.

Peter Parton[2]

Parton wrote a series of nine monographs published from 1961 to 1974 detailing his inventions. Parton died at age 77 on 31 December 1974. The same year, variant inventor Philip M. Cohen created the variant Parton Chess in his honor.

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Cubic Chess

Cubic Chess gameboard

In this 6×6×6 3D variant by Parton, boards are denoted A (bottom level) through F (top level). Each side has six pieces: king (K), queen (Q), bishop (B), unicorn (U), knight (N), and rook (R); and twelve pawns.[3]

Game rules

Pieces move the same as in Raumschach, except that pawns move and capture one step forward (either orthogonally, diagonally, or triagonally), but not directly upward or downward. As in chess and Raumschach, the objective is checkmate.

  • White's starting position: KAa1, QAb1, BAc1, UAd1, NAe1, RAf1; pawns on Aa2–f2 and Ba1–f1
  • Black's starting position: KAf6, QAe6, BAd6, UAc6, NAb6, RAa6; pawns on Aa5–f5 and Ba6–f6

Variation

Parton made a variation of Cubic Chess for the same gameboard: In Compulsion Cubic Chess, capture is compulsory, there are no checks, and the object is capture of the opposing king.

Mad Threeparty Chess

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10 a10 black king b10 black king c10 black king d10 black king e10 black king f10 black king g10 black king h10 black king i10 black king j10 black king 10
9 a9 black king b9 black king c9 black king d9 black king e9 black king f9 black king g9 black king h9 black king i9 black king j9 black king 9
8 a8 black king b8 black king c8 black king d8 black king e8 black king f8 black king g8 black king h8 black king i8 black king j8 black king 8
7 a7 black king b7 black king c7 black king d7 black king e7 black king f7 black king g7 black king h7 black king i7 black king j7 black king 7
6 a6 black king b6 black king c6 black king d6 black king e6 black king f6 black king g6 black king h6 black king i6 black king j6 black king 6
5 a5 black king b5 black king c5 black king d5 black king e5 black king f5 black king g5 black king h5 black king i5 black king j5 black king 5
4 a4 black king b4 black king c4 black king d4 black king e4 black king f4 black king g4 black king h4 black king i4 black king j4 black king 4
3 a3 black king b3 black king c3 black king d3 black king e3 black king f3 black king g3 black king h3 black king i3 black king j3 black king 3
2 a2 black king b2 black king c2 black king d2 black king e2 black king f2 black king g2 black king h2 black king i2 black king j2 black king 2
1 a1 black king b1 black king c1 black king d1 black king e1 black king f1 black king g1 black king h1 black king i1 black king j1 black king 1
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Mad Threeparty Chess starts on an empty board

This variant is for three[4] players on a 10×10 board. Each player has a standard set of pieces in his own color, including an extra king,[5] but no pawns.

The Mad Hatter's tea party; illustration by Sir John Tenniel

Rules

The board starts empty. Players take turns, in clockwise rotation around the board, placing one of their pieces on any vacant square. Kings are placed last, but must not be placed in check.

The two kings of each player are marked differently. (For example, of a player's two kings, one might be marked with a star.) Each player attacks the marked king of the opponent to his left, and the unmarked king of the opponent to his right. It is not permitted to check the opponents' other kings.

The first player to checkmate a king wins the game.

Chess variants

  • Checkers Chess (1950s)
  • Decimal Four-Handed Chess (1950s)
  • Idle Kings' Chess (1950s)
  • Nightrider Chess (1950s)
  • Scaci Partonici (1950s)
  • Rettah Chess (1952)
  • Decimal Rettah Chess (1952)
  • Double Rettah Chess (1952)
  • Tweedle Chess (or Twin Orthodox Chess) (1952)
  • Alice Chess (1953)
  • Kinglet Chess (or Imperial Fiddlesticks) (1953)
  • Neutral King Chess (1953)
  • No-Retreat Chess (1954), co-inventor J. Boyer
  • Black & White Chess (1955)
  • Degraded Chess (1958)
  • Contramatic Chess (1961)
  • Complete Contramatic Chess (1961)
  • Damate (1961)
  • Dunce's Chess (1961)
  • Gryphon Chess (or Complicacious Chess) (1961)
  • Jabberwocky (1961)
  • Knightmare Chess (1961)
  • Linear Chess (1961)
  • Racing Kings (1961)
  • Scacia (1961)
  • Royal Scaci Partonici (1961)
  • Simpleton Chess (1961)
  • Twin Chess (1961)
  • Unirexal Chess (1961)
  • Chimaera Chess (1969)
  • Mock Chess (1969)
  • Ambi-Chess (1970)
  • Butters (1970)
  • Best Decimal Butter (1970)
  • Blot-Straight Chess (1970)
  • Capricorn Chess (1970)
  • Centaur Royal (1970)
  • Cheshire Cat Chess (1970)
  • Co-Regal Chess (1970)
  • Cubic Chess (1970)
  • Demigorgon Chess (1970)
  • Dodo Chess (1970)
  • Ecila (1970)
  • Gorgona Chess (1970)
  • Identific (1970)
  • Looking-Glass Chess (1970)
  • Mad Threeparty Chess (1970)
  • Meddlers' Chess (1970)
  • Semi-Queen Chess (1970)
  • Sphinx Chess (1970)
  • Timur's Cubic Chess (1970)
  • Wyvern Chess (1970)
  • Circean (1971)
  • Dabbabante Chess (1971)
  • Decimal Oriental Chess (1971)
  • Imitante Queen Chess (1971)
  • Synchronistic Chess (1971)
  • Royal Fury (1972)
  • 2000 A.D. (1972)
  • Gorgon Chess (1973)
  • Megasaur Chess (1973)
  • Mimotaur Chess (1973)
  • Rangers Chess (1973)
  • Triscacia (1974)

Checkers variants

  • Good-for-Nothings
  • Dragon
  • Kinger, Simple Kinger, and Grand Kinger

Monographs (with section headings)

Curiouser and Curiouser, (1961), 31 pp.

  • Scacetic
  • The First Lesson in Chess
  • Dunce's Chess in Three Grades
  • Imperial Fiddlesticks
  • The Queen's Relations
  • The Dodo's Chess
  • Rettah
  • Simpletonry
  • Alician
  • The Black King's Complaint
  • Tweedledee and Tweedledum
  • Mock Turtle's Pseudomprphy
  • Damification
  • A New Pudding
  • Podospherism
  • Contramatic
  • The Rules According to the March Hare
  • Knightmares
  • Gryphon's Fancy and Fun
  • The Realm of Circum Morus
  • The Caterpillar's Idea of C.C.C.

Challenge and Delight of Chessical and Decimal, (1970), 14 pp.

Chesshire-Cat-Playeth Looking-Glass Chessys, (1970), 27 pp.

  • The Queen of Hearts' Chess
  • Capricorn Chess
  • The Black King's Complaint
  • The Rules According to the March Hare
  • Identific
  • Synchronistic Chess
  • Jabberwocky Chess
  • Dodo Chess
  • The Chesshire Cat's Grin
  • Scaci Partonici
  • A Chess Reflection
  • Demigorgons
  • The Mad Tea Party
  • Knightmares
  • Scaci Partonici

Chessical Cubism or Chess in Space, (1971), 16 pp.

  • Cubic Chess
  • Tamerlane Variation of Cubic Chess
  • Sphinxian Chess
  • The Compulsion Sphinx Chess Variations
  • Ecila Chess

100 Squares for Chess + Damante, (1972), 16 pp.

  • Capablancan Chess
  • Decimal Falcon-Hunter (Schulz Chess)
  • Half-Queen's Chess
  • Decimal Oriental CHess
  • Decimal Imitante Q Chess
  • Centaur Royal
  • Damate Game
  • Damatic Chess
  • Decimal Duffer's Chess
  • Wyvern Chess
  • Dabbabante Chess
  • Decimal Butter
  • Decimal Obstacles Chess
  • Chimaera
  • Gorgona
  • Circean
  • Ambi-Chess
  • Decimal Scaci Partonici

My Game for 2000 A.D. and After, (1972), 12 pp.

Enduring Spirit of Dasapada, (1973), 19 pp.

  • Dasapada

Idea for a Personal Game, (1973), 12 pp.

  • The Basis of Pawn Partonici
  • The Idea of Scaci Partonici

Chessery for Duffer and Master, (1974), 23 pp.

  • Chessery for Duffer and Master
  • The Game of Rettah Chess
  • Semi-Queen Chess
  • The Diversion of Zerta
  • Meddlers Chess Game
  • The Alice Chess Game
  • The Idea of Gryphon Chess
  • Royal Fury

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Pritchard (1994), p. 3
  2. ^ a b AG8 (2001), p. 9
  3. ^ Pritchard (1994), p. 77
  4. ^ "What are you threee doing?" asked Alice. "We're going to have a Mad Three party" explained the Mad Hatter. Alice thought he must have meant "tea party". "Can I join you please in this party?" she asked politely, and with much curiousity over this painting with jam. "No, you can't" said the March Hare rather impolitely. "If you join, then it would be a Four party instead." Chesshire-Cat-Playeth Looking-Glass Chessys, Parton (1970), p. 6
  5. ^ "Each player has two Kings!" replied the Hatter very crossly at Alice's ignorance in this matter. "It is home-made plain cake commonsense. One of your opponents attacks one of your kings and the other attacks the other. That is quite easy to understand. If you had only a single king it would get too complicated when both of your opponents attacked the same king." He added with a glare of annoyance at Alice's obvious doubt about that point. "If they had only one teapot they would have to halve it, and what use is half a teapot? You seem as stupid as the Dormouse!" Chesshire-Cat-Playeth Looking-Glass Chessys, Parton (1970), p. 7

References

  • Pritchard, D. B. (1994), The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, Games & Puzzles Publications, ISBN 0-9524142-0-1 
  • Peter Parton, "Reflections on Vernon Rylands Parton", Abstract Games (Issue 8 Winter 2001), Carpe Diem Publishing, ISSN 1492-0492

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