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Circular forty-three cell chess board with the cell colourings reminiscent
of semiprecious gemstones.

I was recently looking at the following page, authored by Mike Kelley.

http://www.starwars-rpg.net/journal/archive/2000-08/holochess.html

I was also thinking about this present contest and I realized that a
circular board along the general design of the board used in that page
could be constructed with 3 rings each of 14 cells and 1 centre cell so as
to make a board with 43 cells.

I have thus far produced a board and thought about trying to produce an
entry for the contest, though not got too far with that as yet.

So, I thought that I would make the board available now and allow anyone
who wishes to use it as part of an entry to this contest to do so, in the
hope that the board will be used.

It is available at the following address on the web.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/board43r.gif

If the editors of www.chessvariants.com agree to include the graphic in
the www.chessvariants.com webspace the graphic may be copied by them and
included as a board graphic within the www.chessvariants.com webspace.

The design is intended to convey the idea of cells within a gold framework
with the cells paved with rose quartz, jade and lapis lazuli.

I have entitled it as 'Circular forty-three cell chess board with the
cell colourings reminiscent of semiprecious gemstones.' and hope that the
design will be used for some original chess variant games.

William Overington

12 April 2003

I would like to thank my fellow staff members for picking up the slack for
me during a time of recent personal upheaval.  I believe that all entries
which have been submitted are now posted and linked.

Contestants, thank you for your patience.  The voting instructions will be
posted soon after the April 15th entry deadline, but after the last of any
last-minute entries is posted.  I'm enjoying your creativity so far.

I have also sent an entry to [email protected], and I would like to
know whether anyone got it, or if I should resend it, since I have
received no feedback whatsoever.

--Jared

I can promise you that I sent it to the correct address, i.e.
'[email protected]' - then I got the message I quoted in my
previous message. I DIDN'T send it to any '[email protected]'.

I supposed the editors wanted the entries to be re-directed to the other
address (maybe to save storage space or something).

------

What you have received is probably my 'second attempt' to send my entry to
you - I 'summarized' it a bit in case it was a problem of space.

Mr. Martin:

We have received your Diplomat Chess entry.

We are experiencing problems with mail forwarding at the moment; if the
situation is not cleared up in 48 hours or so I will mail you an alternate
address for your submission.

Glenn Overby
CVP Competitions Editor

Carlos, it might help if you sent the entry to the *correct* address:
[email protected]

(Quote:)

'Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).

<[email protected]>:
Sorry, your message to [email protected] cannot be delivered. 
This
account is over quota.'

(End quote)

I cannot submit my competing entry!!!!

What shall I do now?

I seem to be unable to email either Mr. Bodlaender or Mr. Overby, so I'll
ask my question here:  Is it okay to enter even if you placed highly (like
me) in the 42S contest?

--Jared