Ferdinand Maack

Ferdinand Maack demonstrating his various Raumschach variants at the Hamburg Chess Exhibition

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. He promoted the game with demonstrations, articles, specialist magazines and several books. He founded the Hamburg Raumschach Club in 1919, which remained active until World War II.

Writings

Notes

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

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

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