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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]Monkey King Chess has a preset now, and can be moved to the general category. That's the last one!
If at all possible, could some kindly editor please move Monkey King Chess and Canyon Chess to the Competing Entry list in time for the opening of voting tomorrow? Voting is opening tomorrow, right?
Did you guys get my votes? I sent them in awhile ago.
The voting dates must be updated. Are the first results available?. When starts the second voting round? (it seems it is not August 15, as previously stablished). If there are some news, it is not available yet, though. Please clarify.
Apologies. Just a few days. The specific voting system causes more problems than I thought.
Hans, This site has PHP scripts I wrote for conducting an automated Condorcet poll. The files are in /public_html/cgi-bin/rankedpoll/. The main file to include is runpoll.php. It includes extensive comments documenting how to use it. If you want to enforce some rules it wasn't designed to handle, such as a contestant not voting for his own game, then you could use it at the end to calculate the results, entering the results in yourself instead of using it to also collect the votes.
So far I've not been able to send my votes to either [email protected], or [email protected], nor any other variation on the theme.
I've had the same problem as Erez in mailing my votes.
I've added a votes44 address for our new domain. It will forward email to Hans. The form above will send you to it even though it uses .com in the text. Tests I just ran seem to indicate that chessvariants.com addresses no longer work. Although we have both domains, our control panel only allows the creation of chessvariants.org addresses.
What's the status of the contest? Is voting closed? Have prizes been announced?
It'll get done when the editors in charge of this particular contest have the time. Alas, many of us don't have a lot.
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On a different topic, the [email protected] (well, .org really) e-mail button does <strong>not</strong> currently seem to send the e-mail to anywhere useful. Try one of the standard feedback buttons instead.
I´m not sure if my votes have been received by anyone. Other people may feel the same. Any information about it?
2nd round votes have been received from at least the following people (this will not count votes e-mailed directly to Hans):
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Peter Aronson
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Gary Gifford
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Ken Franklin
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Roberto Lavieri
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Joao Neto
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David Jagger
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If you have sent votes in for the 2nd round, but are not listed here you might want to send them in again, noting that you had sent them earlier.
The winners are finally known. My apologies for the very long delay. A more formal announcement (including the second category) will follow, but I will announce the winners here first:
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<li>Prisoners escape
<li>Space warp
<li>Slide chess
<li>Horus
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The distance between numbers 1 and 2 was small, and the distance between numbers 3 and 4 was small.
Congratulations, Peter!. it is a good game!.
There were a lot of good games, really. It is a pity some of them were disqualified because their authors forgot to vote. But really, everyone who contributed has good reason to be pleased with what they created.
Congratulations to the winners. This had been a fun competition. Can you elaborate on who got disqualified? There was a bit of trouble with the mail previously, and could be that there are those who sent their votes but didn't get through.
Erez,
All of the disqualifications occured in the first round, and I don't believe any of the disqualified entries authors have been visible around the site in that time or since.
All the same, it would be nice to see who did. If you don't wish to disclose the information, though, why not just come out and say so? I would assume BWII wasn't disqualified and was in fact not voted for well, due to a bad case of rehash disease. I honestly don't know what came over me.
Well, <strong>I</strong> wouldn't want to say because I wasn't running the contest, Hans was, and thus it would be Hans' decision. Also, since I only saw the correspondence that went through the main account, as opposed to being e-mailed directly to Hans, I don't really know exactly who might have been eliminated due to not voting, however I do know that there were very likely far less votes cast than designs submitted.
I'll leave the disqualified issue alone then :) I have to say that although the finalists and the winners very much reflect my votes in the contest, I'm very disappointed that Inside-out chess didn't get more votes and that Hole Chess wasn't named among the winners. I found both games to be quite entertaining in playtesting. I have also played Hole Chess a couple of times on the Game Courier since my original votes and it is still quite enjoyable.
Ken Franklin wrote on Sat, Dec 18, 2004 06:14 AM UTC:So, if I (Leap Chess) failed to make the top eight out of 20 (2nd round), and there were multiple disqualified entries for non-voting, and also rehashed pre-existing variants adapted for 44 squares, ... Let's just move ahead to 2005.
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