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Throughout its hundred-year history, the game Jetan has influenced many writers and game designers. Invented by author Edgar Rice Burroughs for his 1922 novel The Chessmen of Mars, Jetan has been played by enthusiastic fans and serious gamers alike. This first-ever book on Jetan explores the game's rules in depth and provides new interpretations based on up-to-date research. It chronicles the game's history, explores tactics and variants and provides a complete standard for notating games. Also included are three annotated Jetan playthroughs and several practice exercises. Over 80 diagrams and photographs are used as illustrations, and an essay about Edgar Rice Burroughs' lifelong interest in sports and games further contextualizes the game.

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Sometimes, you don't realize there's an important gap in the scholarship about a famous author until someone fills that gap....Eckman has done excellent and indepth scholarship. He pulls up every dollop of information about Jetan from Burroughs' books...Eckman's prose is clear, readable and entertaining. He's a good writer who has indeed filled in an important gap in Burroughs' scholarship. --Tim DeForest, producer and co-host of the Edgar Rice Burroughs podcast A unique contribution that is a 'must' for the legions of Edgar Rice Burroughs fans...strongly recommended --Midwest Book Review; The book is one that should be sought out by chess variant fans --Yorkton This Week The book devotes considerable space in providing a lot of research into jetan 'fandom' as Ekman cites numerous sources...a labor of love. This is an in depth look at jetan and its background. Because it is so specialized, the audience for this book is one comprised of fans of the work of ERB, particularly his Martian series and for those fans of chess variants of which jetan is one. If your interests fall into either category, this book is for you! --Gamers Alliance Report A thorough investigation of Jetan has been seriously lacking up to now. Ekman has filled the gap with his new book...the definitive guide on the topic. Everyone interested in Jetan, or simply collectors of game literature, will need to have a copy....a unique book on an unusual game.... This new book by Fredrik Ekman is an excellent introduction to the game, complete as far as it goes in bringing together the various strands that make up Jetan culture. The author makes a clear and compelling argument for coming back to Jetan to better understand its special fascination, both as a game in itself and because of its 'virtual theme'...[the author's] enthusiasm is infectious. I highly recommend this book. --Abstract Game Fredrik Ekman has done a masterful job with Jetan, the Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Rules, history, variants, sample matches and problems, it's all here in a book that will interest gamers, science fiction buffs, and pop culture fans. Even the most ardent Burroughs enthusiast will learn something new in this comprehensive guide to the game at the heart of the sword-and-planet classic The Chessmen of Mars. --Scott Tracy Griffin, author of Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration and Tarzan on Film.

Fredrik Ekman has done a masterful job with Jetan, the Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Rules, history, variants, sample matches and problems, it's all here in a book that will interest gamers, science fiction buffs, and pop culture fans. Even the most ardent Burroughs enthusiast will learn something new in this comprehensive guide to the game at the heart of the sword-and-planet classic The Chessmen of Mars. --Scott Tracy Griffin, author of Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration and Tarzan on Film.

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"""Sometimes, you don't realize there's an important gap in the scholarship about a famous author until someone fills that gap....Eckman has done excellent and indepth scholarship. He pulls up every dollop of information about Jetan from Burroughs' books...Eckman's prose is clear, readable and entertaining. He's a good writer who has indeed filled in an important gap in Burroughs' scholarship.""--Tim DeForest, producer and co-host of the Edgar Rice Burroughs podcast ""If you readJetan: The Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of your takeaways will likely be a head-shaking admiration for the complete grasp and understanding of jetan rules, tactics and notations found between these covers. ... In short, the book is brilliant, and long overdue.""--ERB Book Reviews ""The research and thought that [Ekman] has put into this work is awe inspiring. This will surely never be surpassed as a reference for the game and is highly recommended for all Burroughs fans and gamers.""--The Anotar, Journal of The British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society ""A unique contribution that is a 'must' for the legions of Edgar Rice Burroughs fans...strongly recommended""--Midwest Book Review; ""The book is one that should be sought out by chess variant fans""--Yorkton This Week ""The book devotes considerable space in providing a lot of research into jetan 'fandom' as Ekman cites numerous sources...a labor of love. This is an in depth look at jetan and its background. Because it is so specialized, the audience for this book is one comprised of fans of the work of ERB, particularly his Martian series and for those fans of chess variants of which jetan is one. If your interests fall into either category, this book is for you!""--Gamers Alliance Report ""A thorough investigation of Jetan has been seriously lacking up to now. Ekman has filled the gap with his new book...the definitive guide on the topic. Everyone interested in Jetan, or simply collectors of game literature, will need to have a copy....a unique book on an unusual game.... This new book by Fredrik Ekman is an excellent introduction to the game, complete as far as it goes in bringing together the various strands that make up Jetan culture. The author makes a clear and compelling argument for coming back to Jetan to better understand its special fascination, both as a game in itself and because of its 'virtual theme'...[the author's] enthusiasm is infectious. I highly recommend this book.""--Abstract Game ""Fredrik Ekman has done a masterful job with Jetan, the Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Rules, history, variants, sample matches and problems, it's all here in a book that will interest gamers, science fiction buffs, and pop culture fans. Even the most ardent Burroughs enthusiast will learn something new in this comprehensive guide to the game at the heart of the sword-and-planet classic The Chessmen of Mars.""--Scott Tracy Griffin, author of Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration and Tarzan on Film."

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