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Approval Poll for Games in the Third Game Courier Tournament

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Poll number Approval Poll for Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games you want in the third Game Courier tournament.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jul 15, 2006 03:17 PM EDT:

As I said in an earlier post, 'The number of games played in the tournament will mainly be a function of how many people enter. More participants will mean more games.' Since 26 people voted in the first poll, I'm anticipating the possibility that there will be around 26 participants.

Jeremy Good wrote on Sat, Jul 15, 2006 08:35 AM EDT:

A lot more games made it into the second poll than you had suggested. Is that because more people voted than you had thought would? How many games do you anticipate being selected for the final set?

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jul 15, 2006 06:56 AM EDT:

Here are the modified results of this poll. I subtracted two votes for each previous email tournament a game has been in that was sponsored by this site. This only includes multivariant tournaments run by myself, Antoine Fourriere, or Glenn Overby. Since games with seven votes still numbered fewer than the voters, I also included games with six votes in the final results. Not counting Chaturanga, which as far as anyone knows is the same as Shatranj, there will be 35 games to rank in the upcoming poll. Since Falcon Chess and Falcon Chess 100 are both protected by the Falcon Chess patent, I will leave them out unless I receive permission from George Duke to include them in the tournament. That would leave 33 games to rank.

Crazyhouse	14
Omega Chess	15 - 2
Grand Shatranj	11
Dimension X	10
Time Travel Chess	10
Switching Chess	9
Falcon Chess	9
Templar Chess	9
Anti-King Chess II	11 - 2
Voidrider Chess	8
Great Shatranj	8
Sky	8
Cannons of Chesstonia	8
Catapults of Troy	8
Alice Chess	12 - 4
Janus Chess	7
Yáng Qí	7
Avalanche Chess	7
Storm the Ivory Tower	7
Mir Chess	7
Korean Chess	7
Shatranj of Troy	7
Pocket Mutation Chess	11 - 4
Capablanca's Chess	6
Capablanca Random Chess	6
Fusion Chess	6
Moderate Progressive Chess	6
Neutral King Chess	6
Falcon Chess 100	6
Shako	6
Shatranji	6
Modern Shatranj	6
Berolina Chess	6
Glinski's Hexagonal Chess	8 - 2
Rococo	10 - 4

The following games didn't make it, because they lost votes from being in previous tournaments.

Caïssa Britannia	7 - 2
Fischer Random Chess	7 - 2
Hostage Chess	7 - 2
Chess	7 - 2
Extinction Chess	9 - 4
Shogi	11 - 6
Ultima	6 - 2
Shatranj	6 - 2
Eurasian Chess	6 - 2
Chess with Different Armies	6 - 2
Marseillais Chess	6 - 2
Maxima	8 - 4
Grand Chess	9 - 6
Chinese Chess	8 - 6
Kamikaze Mortal Shogi	6 - 4

Jeremy Good wrote on Fri, Jun 23, 2006 02:11 PM EDT:

Well, I am rather fond of Two Pipe Chess. It is quite nice. But mea culpa, I created a second preset for it forgetting there already was one. I've deleted it now. Whooops!

Doug Chatham wrote on Fri, Jun 23, 2006 01:10 PM EDT:

It looks like 'Two Pipe Chess' is so nice, it's listed twice.

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