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George Duke wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2014 04:03 PM UTC:
AltOrthHex has to be Charles Gilman's top contribution so far.  Put it
today at #9 in NextChess Track I.  The last in-slot was early 2011.  That
was within Track II, the fanciful CVs to be spun off, where Rococo is #1
and Tetrahedral #2.  After this, Track II will develop in own
thread and article
separate from Track I. 

http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSaltorthhexches. 
There would have to a lot more play to settle whether Glinski or McCooey is
the better orientation for handling Knight's mode.  However, Charles'
splitting up the Rooks has stood the test of several years as original and
correct.  Two three-way Rooks are the right solution for hexagonal, shunning
alternative six-way Rooks of the last hundred years.  It makes hexagonal geometry viable to
replace Simpleminded f.i.d.e.-type Chess.  AltOrthHex in one of its
subvariants Gilman has designed could become the standard Chess of
hexagons, let's say alongside several square-based standards -- bringing
variety to Chess and temporary Computer submission.

Placement at #9 suggests AltOrthHex to be better idea than the best of the
updated "Carreras," Schoolbook Chess http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSschoolbook, well-analysed for a CV, itself dropped to #11 to date (Eurasian between them dropping to #10).  

http://www.chessvariants.org/index/listcomments.php?subjectid=NextChess9 --the earlier part of ongoing article, preceded by NextChess 8 and so on.  Next nominated to rank is actually another Carrera, 13-year-old 
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/not-particularly-new.html  by Peter Aronson.  Where should it be placed all things considered?

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