Bug Division

[crazymaharajah]

I accidentally found Gnejs at the end of 2018 and entered into correspondence with him. I managed to get a series of short answers, but this was not enough for the interview. The Gnejs later returned to the community and Nick Long interviewed him for new site. I advertised Nick's new site for chess.com and reddit.

It is interesting to people today.



 

I must say that the historical thebugboard.net is still available in the web archive.

This is a document of the events of the first half of the 2000s. Recent forum topic updates in 2007.

 

The discussion is very similar to my own questions that arising from me prompted me in my research.

The discussions old school: "Bughouse Rating Bureau for OTB", "First Bughouse Tournaments", "Bronstein - experience", "Who is the best bugger (16yrs. and under)", "The strongest teams in history and present", "Future of bughouse (Tandem Chess)", "Bughouse hiSTORY" etc.

All this is imbued with the humor of the players, which is especially distinguishing our community.




A picture and a legend from a 1960s comic.This is a picture from bughouse.info

It somehow also occurred to me such a thought and this coincidence surprised and amused me: 

"I first played bughouse while in college back in the early 1970s. It seemed to be most popular with chess players who also liked to smoke pot, and, I have to admit, bughouse and marijuana did seem to go well together. (I don't know exactly why. They just do.)
This leads me to think that bughouse started in the late 1960s, as many have speculated. The original buggers were probably chess players who were also part ot the extensive 1960s drug sub-culture. The reason no one can put an exact date as to when it was invented is because the first players were all too stoned to remember playing."

Well-known players created their personal pages in the early era. We can find small fragments of this. Other things are in some private collections, or you need to have money to get access to them. Part of the early history described by Fabrice Liardet raises the idea of the existence of early bases ICC -  it is the inaccessibility of these bases that gives rise to the legends of how Bobby Fisher played on ICC. 

 

This is the archeology of the internet. Is there for example somewhere an interview with Anders Ebenfelt

These old pages are facts that as in the case of Crazyhouse, the previous generation of players asked the same questions each other that modern players have. Nowadays, chess.com seeks to support the Bug scene, but its implementation still needs to be debugged. Discussions on the forum have few participants. If they ever organize an international online bughouse tournament this will be an event. 

The earliest mention of a bughouse chess in history is "The New Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Rules, Procedure, Manners and Strategy of Games Played with Cards, Dice, Counters, Boards, Words, and Numbers" Richard L. Frey, David McKay, 1947

And as I mentioned in another chapter " Second History of the House"-  Replacement Chess.

I think my research is no longer ongoing. As far back as 2018, i and my friend from the UK found the last links from David Pritchard's encyclopedia to L. Tressan "Das schachspiel:seine gattungen und abarten". 

This is a book written in old-german and published in 1840. Two people from Germany did not answer -  is there something would was anything about “crazy chess” in this book.