Does anyone know who "invented" bughouse?

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Does anyone know who "invented" bughouse?

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I think the guy's name was Frank Bughouse. Brilliant man.

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skoonj wrote:
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Does anyone know who "invented" bughouse?

I think the guy's name was Frank Bughouse. Brilliant man.

Yes, such a shame about his late brother John, who gave us suicide chess.


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skoonj wrote:
somebody wrote:
Does anyone know who "invented" bughouse?

I think the guy's name was Frank Bughouse. Brilliant man.

Yes, such a shame about his late brother John, who gave us suicide chess.

And don't forget their brilliant physicist father Fritz, who invented atomic
chess. It was standard procedure for Fritz to blitz away an afternoon
trying to capture the energy from lightning. In reality he was a loser, a
mere pawn in the hands of king of his day, although they knighted him for
his efforts after his work was checked and found to be good material. After
his wife died, Fritz ended up getting a good position in the castle, in a
dark square room diagonally across from the king's bishop. I won't start
about Frank and John's brother Junior, whom a local Fischerman, found
brutally skewered to death with kitchen forks, his face craftily shredded
beyond recognition, floating with the royal karp in the deep blue of the
palace moat. Oh the sacrifices some of us have to make...
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skoonj wrote:
somebody wrote:
Does anyone know who "invented" bughouse?

In the Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, Pritchard estimates that Bughouse was
created in the 1960s.
Some of the links here may help you out:
http://www.chessvariants.com/multipl...ir/tandem.html
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