George Duke wrote on Wed, Nov 3, 2010 11:08 PM UTC:
The way Spartan Chess is being developed is reminiscent of year 2003
Luotuoqi, which also plural parties' comment, vote and input completed,
http://www.chessvariants.org/contests/luotuoqi.html. Okay, so then Spartan Chess as #30 is to be up-slotted at NextChess after #29 'a
Gifford yet to name'. Thanks for the nomination. At the over 25 comments Spartan Chess has reached, the first ones are being hacked off one by one without splitting. Anyway the preferred Spartan(s), they said is to have a regular write-up. In advance, expect Spartan Chess to be held up chiefly to Fantasy Grand(#16), http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/fantasygrandchess.html, for comparison. The reason is both are different armies CVs. Betza's deserving Chess Different Armies is omitted to help level the playing field, and he has Black Ghost(#17). In theory, CDA could be determined by committee as improvement to replace Fantasy Grand; just as even an individual's expressed detestation of some high-ranking CV would likely cause demotion a notch or two now. In fact, Winther objected to Big Board(#6) and at the right time Big Board goes down a bit for that reason alone respecting Winther's. Thus consider Sissa(#7) as prospective #6 in the Track I ranking, so being a work in progress and of context, not to say proactive.
