Changelog

v3.7.web

2025-03-31

Fixed typos throughout.

Rewrote supporting text sections:

• [X] - Chaturanga
• [X] - Sandomierz
• [X] - Reimagining queens bishops and rooks: integrated this into supporting text for Charlemagne, Lewis, and Itallian Renaissance patterns instead.

New sets:

• [X] - American Chess company
  • [X] - Cartoon
  • [X] - Text
• [X] - Biró
  • [X] - Cartoon
  • [X] - Text

Further photos/figures:

• [X] - Photo of the Karpov vs Kasparov Grandmaster pieces in Moscow's chess museum.
• [X] - Philidor chessmen ad.
• [X] - Redesigned chaturanga dissemination figure.

CSS changes including new font and alterations to how the 'aside' sections appear.

v3.6.web

2025-03-24

Added new sets:

• [X] - Bornu
  • [X] - Text
  • [X] - Cartoon
• [X] - Hourglass
  • [X] - Text
  • [X] - Cartoon
• [X] - Valdai
  • [X] - Text
  • [X] - Cartoon
• [X] - Ganine Classic
  • [X] - Text
  • [X] - Cartoon
• [X] - Play Magnus
  • [X] - Text
  • [X] - Cartoon

Further Reddit links.

Updated text, including:

• [X] - Note about Gothic sets and Duncans.
• [X] - Averbakh/Soviet Upright clarifications.
• [X] - Note about new company reviving Spanish-style sets.
• [X] - Jim Joannou's contributions to Barleycorn sets.
• [X] - links for Man Ray designs at the Met.
• [X] - Further on the Mallett set from Williams.
• [X] - Further on the origins of Pulpit sets, from Williams.
• [X] - New pictures illustrating...
  • [X] - Averbakh/Soviet Upright
  • [X] - Česká Klubovka
  • [X] - Italian Renaissance (woodcuts)

Different font for Cyrillic text.

v3.5.web

2025-03-03

Added changelog.

Added new sets:

• [X] - Cannon Rook
  • [X] - Text
  • [X] - Cartoon
• [X] - Finnish
  • [X] - Text
  • [X] - Cartoon
• [X] - Gothic
  • [X] - Text
  • [X] - Cartoon

Updated images:

• [X] - Added a footsoldier to the Afrasiab cartoon.
• [X] - Added a cartoon based on the Windsor portrait.

Updated text:

• [X] - Expanded notes on the Mordovian-Latvian pattern.
• [X] - Fixed typo in footnote link (Rochford essay).

v3.1.web

2025-02-14

Restored cartoon for Bauhaus chessset that was accidentally removed in the last update.

v3.web

2025-02-02

Added reddit links. Added links to Redditors examples of particular sets.

• [X] - Lewis
• [X] - Regency
• [X] - Pistil
• [X] - St. George
• [X] - Staunton
• [X] - Austrian coffeehouse
• [X] - Knubbel
• [X] - Man Ray
• [X] - Bauhaus
• [X] - Poltava bell-bottom
• [X] - Grandmaster
• [X] - Belarusian mushroom
• [X] - Chavet
• [X] - Lipnitsky
• [X] - Morodovian-Latvian
• [X] - Dubrovnik
• [X] - Universum
• [X] - Polish Kings
• [X] - Lanier Graham
• [X] - Olympic
• [X] - Italian metallic
• [X] - Zagreb
• [X] - World Championship
• [X] - Wobble Chess

Fixed typo:

• [X] - "an Russian" -> "a Russian".