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1st World Open Chess Variant PBEM Championship. Tournament proposal open for public comment before creation.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

📝Glenn Overby II wrote on Thu, May 15, 2003 05:07 AM UTC:

William: I have no objection to an entry fee of zero.  However, it is
perhaps appropriate to note that open championships in virtually every
competitive discipline routinely charge entry fees.

Roberto:  The choice of games for list 1 is certainly something I would
want discussed.  I would not want to see list 1 larger than three or four
games, as one of the perceived difficulties with the multivariant concept
is being =required= to learn a whole bunch of variants to compete.

On the list 1 suggestions: I looked for games that broadly sample the
different directions of chess variants, while being recognized for
excellence in their own right.

CWDA brings many different pieces into play.
Extinction provides a different way to win.
Grand is a modern great or extended chess, a thousand-year tradition.
Progressive is the quickest multiple-move variant.
There are certainly other candidates.

On the philosophical question of Shogi and Xiangqi as variants: I would
avoid both on list 1, but would look at variants of either.  (Five-Minute
Poppy Shogi comes to mind.)  As for a player listing Shogi, Xiangqi, or
Western chess on their personal list...that's fine with me.