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The Lùotuoqí project is well under way and will take many months to be
completed.

I was wondering whether it might be a nice idea if the chess variants
management could please consider running a second event for a
committee-designed game, under similar but different rules, just for fun. 
No prizes, other than the pleasure of the finished game being available on
the chess variants website.

If the management would be willing to run such an event I suggest the
following format.  However, please change it around if you wish.

1.  The game follows a suggestion and voting procedure similar to the
Lùotuoqí project, except that suggestions and votes are in the open and in
the comments of a web page about the event, thereby producing an
interesting record of the project.

2.  The whole process is to be completed by the end of Monday 23 December
2002, that is, just over a fortnight from the time that this suggestion is
posted.

3.  The starting point is that the number of spaces is to be decided
amongst the participants during the event.  The game could perhaps be
called Winter Chess as a working title to start, but the name could be up
for voting as well.

4.  The game would not necessarily be played with an orthodox chess set,
that too is part of the design process.

5.  The whole process will be fast track, maybe a vote each day next
week!

6.  This is intended to be just a magnificent piece of fun.  However, it
might perhaps give an insight into the way that a series of five votes
iterates into a final result, bearing in mind that the result of one vote
could perhaps mean that some of the choices for the next vote would then
not be possible.

7.  The participants could perhaps have the fun of designing the
illustrations for the final web page, a Zillions file and maybe producing
a few sample games, so that the final result is available at the end of 23
December 2002.

How do readers, both the management of the chess variants website and also
potential participants, feel about this please?