🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Apr 5, 2020 11:03 PM UTC:
Since the last tournament took so long, I'm going to propose we follow it up with a tournament of games that are designed to end very quickly. I have in mind games like Extra Move Chess, Wormhole Chess, Avalanche Chess, Marseillais Chess, and other small or short games. Quick games were popular for postal correspondence, because it took days to mail moves back and forth. Many of us, including myself, are too young to have been involved with the postal correspondence groups of NOST or AISE, and a tournament like this would help us get in touch with the kinds of games that earlier generation of Chess variant hobbyists played.
Since the last tournament took so long, I'm going to propose we follow it up with a tournament of games that are designed to end very quickly. I have in mind games like Extra Move Chess, Wormhole Chess, Avalanche Chess, Marseillais Chess, and other small or short games. Quick games were popular for postal correspondence, because it took days to mail moves back and forth. Many of us, including myself, are too young to have been involved with the postal correspondence groups of NOST or AISE, and a tournament like this would help us get in touch with the kinds of games that earlier generation of Chess variant hobbyists played.