Talk:Double chess

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 18:35, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Double chess → Double Chess – "Double Chess" is the game name form used in the Pritchard and Winter WP:RSs, not "Double chess". No WP:MOS basis was given to justify "unnecessary capitalization" edit sum rationale given by the renaming editor in the rename action here. Ihardlythinkso (talk) 23:56, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Support; "Double Chess" is more like a proper noun. Both Bodlaender and Winter capitalise the C. bobrayner (talk) 20:46, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
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Earlier usage of term "double chess" to refer to a four-player, Whist-like variant
I am adding this note part as a reminder for myself, and part as a point that might be useful or prompt someone else to address it, as I don't have time at the moment to do so properly.

While results for double chess on websites largely seem to refer to the form described here, there appears to have been a 18th/19th century variant of the same name, which appears to refer to a variant played by four players, with a modified board (I actually came to this page searching for information on it, and so the details aren't clear to me). One can see this in Google ngram results for double chess. Lytton-Strachey twice refers to Prince Albert playing (and not playing) it in *Queen Victoria* (referencing in the first use Early Years of the Prince Consort, by General Charles Grey, 340; The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 256). An 1804 book on chess history (Pruen) refers to a German practice of playing on a "double chess-board", and appears to describe a similar game; some references continue throughout the 19th century. The 1884 National Encyclopedia has an entry on double chess that appears to describe the same game. A J. T. Howard wrote a book on his own version of "Double Chess" in 1885, and has a published letter the previous year to the British Chess Magazine describing the rules of his version and describing it as inspired by an "old (and extremely stupid)" variant he refers to as "four-hand". --Constantine (talk) 21:45, 27 March 2021 (UTC)