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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]<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!
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.
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