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Rich Hutnik wrote on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 04:26 AM UTC:
I am bringing this up to get some ideas here.  The discussion on NextChess
had me wondering if we can come up with some format for having people play
stand-alone chess variants, but them linking together.  Call it 'Pick your
Poison'.  In this format, a player would challenge another player, and one
of the players would then pick a variant to play, and somehow it consist of
a selection of possible games to play.  I am not sure how this format is
determined.  Maybe players have a preferred list of games played, and the
overlap is what they play.

Basic idea is to come up with a way for players to have the freedom to play
what they way, games to retain their own unique flavor, but also we have an
standard way for establish ratings over a season, in a certain format. 

Please give some thoughts to the best way to run 'Pick Your Poison' (or
please come up with a better name here).  Consider it as a way to get my
wish of there be a world champion at chess variants overall.

Rich Hutnik wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 07:06 AM UTC:
A possible approach to this is what I mentioned in the NextChess4 thread:

How about having a tournament where the winner then picks what game will be
played the following year, and players compete, and the player returns the
following year to defend their title?  A proviso would be the player can't
pick one of their own designs as the game to defend their title against.  I
believe this format would touch on a lot of what was discussed in this
thread.  Of course, we should look towards refining the concept, and take
it from there.  

A variant on this last point is, rather than it be an annual tournament,
you run an ongoing series of tournaments, and keep playing the same game
until someone different wins.  They then would end up picking a different
game, and is one they didn't design.  I would recommend here that the
winner of the prior tournament doesn't have to play in the qualifier.

Anyhow, I believe you also come up with an agreed to list of games that
would be candidates to be played and can be picked by the winner of the
tournament.

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