Hi Felix, you must have been online the same time as me, and editing your previous post, since I saw 3 or 4 versions of it. I am a speedreader, and I could swear the text changed immediately after I read it...then read it again, then it changed again! I started rubbing me eyes and blinking!

Anyway, I am in the process of doing "Dog and Pony Shows" to attempt to procure capital to fund the next stage of the venture. I do have boards and pieces already made, I think I mentioned that. A picture of one is now on the webpage at:

http://www.geocities.com/bow_of_odysseus/standard.html

The pieces are high quality, the boards are machine washable and never wrinkle (made out of something akin to mouse pad material.) The patent is becoming international, extending the umbrella from Europe to Hong Kong. I am not so much concerned about wheel barrow sales as I am about software distribution. If somebody creates a Gothic Chess program, I will have no choice but to go for the throat.

I intend to use the patent for licensing agreements. Parker Bros. or Hasbro or Ideal Toys want to make sets, fine with me, pay an annual flat fee plus a small % of the sales, provided I get to write the accompanying documentation.

Anyway, more on this later, I have to finish my 159th version of the Business Plan :) Why can't the banks just give me the 2.2 million dollars and trust me??