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Contest to design a chess variant on 44 squares. Our annual N-squares chess variant design competition.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It sounds interessting, except that *some* of us have already started working on 45-space variants! *growls*
No reason why we couldn't do both. To keep roughly the same number of entries you could pare back each category (45-square and 45-piece) to just one entry per inventor.
Would that be 45 pieces per army, or 45 pieces among all armies?
I don't know the original intent of the suggestion, but I was thinking 45 pieces total. That odd 45th piece is where meat of the challenge would lie, I think.
Here is the first, non competing entry for the 45 pieces contest: queenless but further standard three player chess...
Should we accept an entry that was a few days late? Hans
Yes, please accept a late entry. (Last night while engaged in a lengthy car drive I came up with an idea for a 45 piece variant that is a combination of Hnefatafl and Chaturanga.)
Was Epsilon Eridani received?. This game has not been posted yet, it is a non-competing entry, but it is good if it is included, I like it. I think that other games have not been posted, too. (Peter Leyva´s games?, and pehaps other games sent by other people, I don´t know)
Roberto, we've received <u>Epsilon Eridani</u>, but as you guessed, we've been trying to get everything done for the competing entries first.
It exists a Preset for Symmetron!44, as you can see in the game Page, the Preset was made by Antoine Fouuriere, and we have used it in an interesting game test. Nevertheless, it does not appear in the list of Games in Courier. Why?. Please, add this Preset to the list of available games in the Courier system
Hans,
<p>'standard three-player chess'? Which variant is that?
Like on <a href='http://www.chessvariants.com/multiplayer.dir/3pl2.html'>http://www.chessvariants.com/multiplayer.dir/3pl2.html</a>. That type of three player chess variant is probably more than a century old ...
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We may need another webpage on this variant, with some diving into the ECV first...
One to go: Mini Slanted Escalator Chess by David Short needs a webpage. If we have that, I think that we have all variants, except for some non-competing ones.
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I'll wait till the end of May to see what variants can go to the main category, before starting the official voting.
Hans,
<p>What's happened to my entry: Los Alamos Extinction Chess With Bunkers?
Doug, I assume this was lost due to a mailing problem. There were a few files that didn't arrive at a certain time... Please, send the file again. Hans
Hans,
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<u>Mini Slanted Escalator Chess</u> now has a ZRF, and <u>PiRaTeKnIcS</u> now has a preset, and thus can be moved into the main category.
Hans,
<p><u>Slide Chess</u> now has a zrf and can be moved to the main category.
<br><u>Epsilon Eridani</u> has been added as a non-competing entry.
I don't know what the wide-spread tardiness is about! The 44 sq-contest was open for over 4+ months, (after being announced well in advance). A couple of just-late entries the week after ... yeah fine - of course, slip them in. BUT now it's a whole month past the original due date. Should a REVISED firm (tough, no exceptions) CUTOFF and a NEW RESTART VOTING period date to follow be set?
As there were many submissions sent in around April 21, it took a while before we managed to make a webpage of each of these. This now has done. To give all games a fair chance of getting to the first category, I wait till May 31, 2004 for assigning each game its definitive category. A two month voting period then starts June 1.
If Regenbogen ends up being the only Extra entry, will it win by default or will it be disqualified and the category abandoned?
<A href='http://www.chessvariants.com/44.dir/chogo.html'>Chogo-44</a> now has a preset and can be moved to the main category.
If there is only one, and also if there are two entries in the extra category, the judge (that is me) can decide to award no prize in this category.
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It is, by the way, still possible that someone makes something for regenbogen (a preset?) such that that game is also moved from extra
to regular category.
'If there is only one, and also if there are two entries in the extra category, the judge (that is me) can decide to award no prize in this category.' Not even a li'l coffee mug for not following the crowd? ;) In all honesty, I would think that this decision would not be fair, as it would undercut the work I did on the game. I started designing this game months before the contest, and I would think that it should be possible for that work to pay off somehow, even if it is only a coffee mug. (Of course, if it is moved to the main category, I won't have any reason to complain, but I doubt that a preset could be easily constructed, and I am incapable of programming a computer version myself, for ZoG or otherwise.) Just my 2 cents. I'll shut up now.
A decision to not award a prize would be taken <em>after</em> looking at the (if only few) submissions to the extra category. It depends on the quality of the games in the extra category, in particular, the way the judge (I) would think of this quality.
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Regards, Hans
At the end of the month, can you distribute the ZRFs for all Hans44 games in one zip file? Thanks!
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