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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 10:14 PM EST:
Sam,

One rule I'm sticking to is that a game must be programmed for the tournament. I am willing to relax the first-come first-served rule if you guys want to work on a consensus. But I'm going to leave the power to decide on the games in the hands of the people whose choices I've already listed (or their successors if anyone drops out). My job will be to make sure that the games match the criteria for this tournament's theme.

I notice that H.G. hasn't actually stated his intention to sign up, but he isn't the only one. So far, Joe Joyce, Vitya Makov, Nicolas Wolff, Carlos Cetina, mirari, and myself are the only ones to explicitly state our intention to sign up for the tournament. Others, including yourself, have only suggested games. I am presently assuming that they intend to play in the tournament, but I will need confirmation of this to know whether I should include their picks in the tournament.

Vitya,

I think I have played Circular Chess before and didn't think much of it. From the perspective of preparing people for other variants, which seems to be something you have on your mind in making your list, Hexagonal Chess has the advantage that hexagonal variants are more common and more popular than circular variants. My experience with Glinski's Hexagonal Chess in a previous tournament is that it is a good game. Other than that, it looks like a good list.

Given the list we already have, I think Ajax Orthodox Chess is worth keeping. I continue to stand by my pick of Eurasian Chess, and it looks like Sam may give us a Capa variant. A weak pieces variant is on the list with Joe's Hypermodern Shatranj. That leaves Knightmate, which may at least be a good introduction to having a royal piece that is not a King.

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