High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alice Chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration to the standard rules of chess. The game is named after the main character "Alice" in Lewis Carroll`s work Through the Looking-Glass, where travel through the mirror is portrayed on the chessboards by the after-move transfer of chess pieces between boards A and B.