Flying chess is a chess variant, based around a three dimensional board. It was invented by Dr David Eltis (a noted historian of the Military Revolution) in 1984.
Famous quotes containing the words flying and/or chess:
“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)