Ferdinand Maack (1861–1930) was a German doctor, inventor and occultist. He invented
Raumschach
Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which the pieces can move. In practical play, this is usually achieved by boards representing d ...
, the classic 3D chess game, first described by him in the ''Frankfurter Zeitung'' in 1907. He promoted the game with demonstrations, articles, specialist magazines and several books. He founded the Hamburg Raumschach Club in 1919, which remained active until World War II.
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1861 births
1930 deaths
Chess variant inventors
20th-century German inventors
20th-century German physicians
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