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.