George Duke wrote on Mon, Jul 27, 2015 01:32 PM EDT:
What was happening 20 years ago to the day?
http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/ultima.html. There are only tens of
articles that say "1995 or 1996." Ultima above was one of those first
that go back to 1995. When I learned about CVPage summer 1996, there were
items that had been up for about a year. The earliest CVPage material
appears to be turning 20 years old exactly. Abbott's Ultima the game
turned a round fifty itself in 2012. Abbott weighed in couple of times still
self-critiquing his own popular CV. It's not a game of power pieces but
close positioning, Ultima, as even LL was not dominating on 8x8. Did Parton
use Long Leaper after Ultima, or did it resurface in Rococo 40 years
later? No wonder Bodlaender would pick U. first year. I was able to
finish Falcon Chess patent, which ran 1997 to 2012, by researching Pritchard
1994 'ECV' and CVPage 1995- (to date), as well as Dawson's writing til 1951 or 1952 in British Chess magazines.