Ferdinand Maack

Ferdinand Maack (1861–1930) was a German doctor, inventor and occultist. He invented Raumschach, the classic 3D chess game, first described by him in the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1907.[1][2][3] He promoted the game with demonstrations, articles, specialist magazines[lower-alpha 1] and several books.[lower-alpha 2] He founded the Hamburg Raumschach Club in 1919, which remained active until World War II.

Notes
  1. E.g. Raumschach.
  2. Das Schachraumspiel: Dreidimensionales Schachspiel (printed 1907); Spielregeln zum Raumschach (1913); Raumschach: Einführung in die Spielpraxis (1919).[4]

References
  1. Hooper & Whyld (1996), p. 419. Three-Dimensional Chess.
  2. Pritchard (1994), pp. 305–07
  3. Pritchard (2007), p. 230
  4. Dickins (1971), p. 16

Bibliography

  • Dickins, Anthony (1971) [corrected repub. of 1969 2nd ed., The Q Press, Richmond, Surrey, England]. A Guide to Fairy Chess. New York: Dover Publications Inc. ISBN 0-486-22687-5.
  • Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1996) [First pub. 1992]. The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280049-3.
  • Pritchard, D. B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1.
  • Pritchard, D. B. (2007). Beasley, John (ed.). The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1.


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