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Kevin Pacey wrote on Fri, Jan 18, 2019 01:11 AM UTC:

Could there ever be a meaningful world chess variants championship? This may just be a silly question, in that the answer might seem to be that, since obviously there are limitless CVs possible (and CVs are being invented all the time), there could be no meaningful CVs world championship possible (the opposite being true in the case of a given single CV).

Nevertheless, Mind Sports championships are regularly held now, although one might argue that since the choice of 'mind sports' played by the contestants is to some extent rather arbitrary, the winner of such a championship has a somewhat nebulous honour at best.

If we in the CV community ever in future wish to confine a similar sort of championship to a carefully selected set of CVs, to be the basis of a CVs world championship tournament or match(es), how might such a selection of CVs ever give the winner of such a CV world championship a clearer sort of honour, relatively close to as is the case for a chess world championship winner, for example?

Our website chessvariants.com offers its own lists of what are (currently!?) considered the 'best' CVs, although such lists would at some point, to satisfy such a careful selection process, need to be narrowed down to a smaller, single list of (currently) 'best' CVs, perhaps based primarily (if not exclusively) on the currently most popular CVs played. If this could be done by a world CV authority organization at some point (or perhaps simply by eliminating all but CVs [if ever significantly more than one] from a future Mind Sports list of games etc. for their championships), a world CVs championship might to some extent be meaningful. Note that as newer CVs eventually become popular enough, they could be taken into account in the selection process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_sport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_championships_in_mind_sports


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