Luminous Chess

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Luminous Chess is a Macintosh application which implements an unusual Chess board. Every piece on the board casts light onto the squares which it may attack; one player's pieces cast red light, and the other's cast blue. These lights overlap and combine, showing you instantly the influence exerted over any square on the board. Luminous Chess is strictly a two-player game; there is no computer opponent. However, it has several advantages over a normal Chess board: 1.The luminous squares are both beautiful and informative. 2.Luminous Chess implements both standard and Grand Chess (which requires a 10x10 board). 3.The pieces in Luminous Chess are not easily knocked over by the cat while you're trying to play. (Grand Chess mostly follows standard Chess Rules, but uses a larger board, adds two extra pieces, and eliminates the "castle" move.) Joseph J. Strout Department of Neuroscience, UCSD http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/