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Article: Born-again chess pieces. (new way of playing chess)
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- Interview
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Chess is boring, but Jeff Miller is not. Or anyway, he's not bored, not anymore.
I had never heard of Jeff Miller until a while back, when I happened to be out in Berkeley, California, visiting some old friends, several of whom I found to have become mildly obsessed with a strange new game, a bizarre variation on chess; all of them told me that if I thought they were obsessed, I should meet Jeff Miller, the game's recent inventor and uncontested grandmaster. They warned me that Jeff was a bit odd himself, and had been even before he invented the game. He was described to me as a sporadically employed software designer - he'd helped to automate the fingerprint ...