Norman Crider held an exhibition on which creator of the rule "The Dying Swan".
Norman Crider Norman Crider (August 29, 1938, in Lordsburg, New Mexico – August 19, 2009, in Indianapolis) was a baton-twirling champion and proprietor of the Ballet Shop near Lincoln Center in New York. He also owned a gallery-bookshop on Madison Avenue where in 1977 he held an acclaimed exhibition on prima ballerina Anna Pavlova.
Bashni Bashni (also known as "Stolbovye shashki") is a draughts game based on the rules of Russian draughts, main difference from other draughts games is that after capturing pieces instead of being removed from the board are placed under the piece that jumped over them, forming a column (Russian word Bashni meaning column). It is played in Russia and some parts of the former USSR. A variant, Lasca, was invented by World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker, using a mixture of the rules from Bashni and English draughts.