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2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Joe Joyce wrote on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 11:03 PM UTC:

Jeremy, there never was a 45 square contest; Hans stopped having birthdays, apparently. Be that as it may [if he managed it, I'm jealous!], a number of people have expressed some interest in such a contest. I, too, like David's idea: run a 45/46 squares contest. I'd say run this contest - the 45/46 Square Contest - now, while we're trying to figure out which contest[s] to run. This'll give you practice, and everyone a chance to get their contest muscles toned. Work out the details as we get the entries - email me, I'll help.

As far as judging, if we can't scrounge up a qualified panel of judges, maybe we could use a work-around. If we could post all the entries anonymously, the entrants could judge everyone else's stuff without knowing whose work it was,  theoretically. Or you could split the entries into 2 parts, and let the players from each group judge the other. The 2 winners would be judged by all the remaining entrants. Surely we could manage something that would be reasonably fair, in the absence of a panel of judges, who would also, ideally, get the entries anonymously [might want to have a format for the entries to help erase obvious personal styles]. 

That's about it, Jeremy. Just declare it open, and we're off! ;-)