German doctor and inventor (1861-1930)

Ferdinand Maack (1861–1930) was a German doctor, inventor and occultist. He invented Raumschach, the cl*ic 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.

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Bibliography

• Dickins, Anthony (1971) . A Guide to Fairy Chess. New York: Dover Publications Inc. ISBN:0-486-22687-5.
• Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1996) . The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd:ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN:0-19-280049-3.
• Pritchard, D. B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. ISBN:0-9524142-0-1.
• Pritchard, D. B. (2007). Beasley, John (ed.). The Cl*ified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. ISBN:978-0-9555168-0-1.

External links

• Works by or about Ferdinand Maack at Internet Archive