Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Jan 22, 2019 12:18 AM EST:
It occured to me to Google "chess variants championship tournament", just in case the idea of a multiple CV event (on or off line) had already been thought of. Sure enough, there was an old 2003 idea proposed in detail by an editor for a world open PBEM CVs event to be held on chessvariants.com at some future time. Apparently the idea didn't go anywhere, but the details are interesting. I didn't see any mention of how to avoid any computer assistance by players, just that it wasn't allowed. An entry fee of sorts was to be involved:
Note that on the first page of the Google search result that I obtained, there was a 2005 FICS (Free Internet Chess Server) championship event mentioned, which included 7 chess variants.
It occured to me to Google "chess variants championship tournament", just in case the idea of a multiple CV event (on or off line) had already been thought of. Sure enough, there was an old 2003 idea proposed in detail by an editor for a world open PBEM CVs event to be held on chessvariants.com at some future time. Apparently the idea didn't go anywhere, but the details are interesting. I didn't see any mention of how to avoid any computer assistance by players, just that it wasn't allowed. An entry fee of sorts was to be involved:
https://www.chessvariants.com/contests/worldopen.html
Note that on the first page of the Google search result that I obtained, there was a 2005 FICS (Free Internet Chess Server) championship event mentioned, which included 7 chess variants.