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Thanks
I want to say 'thank you' to those who have helped in the past or are currently helping me to keep this small club up and running.
 First of all thanks to my family for their tolerance, and their sacrifice if I sometimes spend more time with this hobby than with them.
 Thanks to Eddie Boyd from Scotland for his volunteer webmaster work.
With his help the site looks much better than before. He also corrects my English and helps to keep the pages consistent.
Thanks to Gergo Macsi from Hungary, who created the first chess piece set at the very beginning.
 Thanks to Henk Chang from Suriname, who has helped me a lot maintaining the English speaking interface of the server, who has checked and corrected my poor English, and helped me to plan the next improvements with his great correspondence chess experience.
 Thanks to Michael Keating for making freely available the MyChessViewer Java application that handles the games of tournaments on the Events page.
Thanks to Pal Benyovszki from Hungary. He works on the German translations of the server. This will let German speaking players to enter and play in the club. He is the first member of the German Language Team.
And to all the players who help my work with criticisms and suggestions.
I welcome every help players can shoulder. I've written a separate page dealing with this, the Volunteering page.
Andras Galos
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The Kuruksetra battle
When the morning of that day has dawned, the two parties faced each other in arms.
The warriors stood in four rows: kings and princes in front on shining charriots, in jewelry and gold-adorned armors, with glistening weapons. Battle flags swung on high poles of each chariots, they will recognize each others and the enemy in the deepest bustle of the battle.
The cavarly formed the second line. They were ready on light and quick horses, to support the charriots.
Huge elephants like mountains stood in the third line, armored frameworks on their back, fullfilled with archers and lancers: when the charriots and chavarly disarranged the enemy, they will roll like rocks over them.
The infantry formed the fourth line behind the elephants, with shields and swords, to settle the battle with their bulk. (from the Mahabharata)
Position of the chess pieces is similar to the above:
Infantry: the pawns
Charriots: the rooks
Chavarly: the knights
Elephants: the bishops (on schematical illustrations in the Middle Ages they were similar to the fools hat: the name of this piece is fou in Franche, which means fool, and Laufer in German which means something like bishop)
The queen is a minister of the king in the easter chess, fersan in Persian, and mudabbi in Arabic.
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