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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 02:31 PM UTC:
Among Vitya's suggestions, I preferred Embassy Chess, because I wanted a Capablanca variant in this tournament, and it was the only one mentioned. Since I don't play on the other sites, it is more new to me than some of the others that have been played more here. I will look into programming Circular Chess if that is what you prefer. Glinski's Hexagonal Chess is already programmed, and McCooey's shouldn't be too difficult to program, but Circular Chess may need some new operations added to the GAME Code language.

When I thought of this tournament, I didn't specifically have modest variants in mind. Note that my own pick is not a modest variant. If you picked a modest variant but would actually prefer some other game that fits the criteria, it is alright to change it.

If some of you want to change your choices or defer your choices to someone else, do so soon. I would like the games to be played settled on by the end of the weekend. Then I will modify the page to mention the games we'll be playing, and if 16 haven't signed up yet, I'll put a notice in Game Courier to draw more attention to the tournament.

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