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(1) To Joyce, please do not leave out qualifications: we identify year 2011 of '8x8' as in deference to Betza and Seirawan, implicitly conceding
shortcomings of Black Ghost. However, do not rule out an introduced piece
a la Betza or Seirawan as solution Track One. (2) For all his language, we
never directly rated Duniho's ''inventions,'' the one and only
prolificist omitted before for obvious reasons, except right here
favourably with Eurasian  as selection for 2009. Any evaluation ought to
be balanced not all one way. Whosoever stews in his own juice, the site
moves on.  There should be nothing personal about each trio named for each
year, and by 2030 or 2040, many more designers of just one or five CVs, non-prolificists, may find
theirs  here too. Anyone can veto any choice, literally, as stated from
day one of ''NextChess.'' If any one person objects to actual play of
any CV in this thread, we remove it within 24-48 hours. Total consensus.
Now these are all Track One, the specialty for rest of season. For Year 2014,
chosen candidates are Great Shatranj (8x10),
King's Court (8x12 96 squares Sidney LeVasseur), Three Player Chess (96 spaces Zubrin, patented USP3652091). These all
have the ''feel'' of proximity to OrthoChess. Joyce may not consider
Great Shatranj his best, but it is desirable size he recently mentions. We are not selecting personal favourites so much as predicting what some cadre of anti-OrthoChessists may eventually endorse. Why not Chess being the first sport to break from one on one to one by one
by one, as Three Players? Absolutely all of the others so far are the following, numbering fifteen: 2013 Wildebeest, Fantasy Grand, Venator; 2012 Big Board, Courier de la Dama, Eight-Stone; 2011 Switching, Seirawan, Black Ghost; 2010 Centennial, Templar, Unicorn Great; 2009 Modern, Mastodon, Eurasian.