Penultima is a game of inductive logic played on an ordinary chess board with standard chess pieces. It was invented in Cambridge in 1994 by Michael Greene and Adam Chalcraft, and it is derived from the chess variant Ultima, also known as Baroque chess, in which every piece is replaced by a fairy piece with its own mechanics. In Penultima each piece again has its own movement and capture rules, but those rules vary from game to game and are kept secret from the players at the start, so each side must work out how the pieces behave by trying moves and seeing what is allowed. This makes it similar in style to Mao, which was popular in Cambridge at the time, and to Eleusis and Zendo. The name is a pun on penultimate and Ultima.
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Penultima is a game of inductive logic, played on a chess board.
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It was invented by Michael Greene and Adam Chalcraft in Cambridge in 1994.
Derived From: Baroque chess, Lead, derivation
The game is derived from the chess variant Ultima (otherwise known as Baroque chess)
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