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I agree with Greg Strong that Canada's Omega Chess is all advertising; as a CV it is about '2' out of 10 because of weak pieces on large board, but I logged an obligatory political several Omega Games when Jeremy Good was around. A little earlier Grand Chess had similar unjustified attention as Omega because it was Dutch, the same as the CV founder, but Grand just has too much wasted space too. Those two are kind of the opposite of also mediocre Seirawan Chess; Seirawan Chess, invented supposedly in western Canada, is also '3' out of 10 because of too-powerful pieces on little 8x8. And Seirawn does not even have the humor of Betza and Cohen's Tutti-Frutti, which did the same thing 30 years earlier.<p> To single out one opinion, Kevin Pacey says about Polypiece games that they are "too complex and/or unnatural." That is academic by someone who probably did not try playing by those rules like Pocket Polypiece, as French-transplant Antoine Fourriere himself is great polypiece player. There are finer gradations probably between many more levels than regular Simpleminded Chess (admittedly rather a cliché they said about now Computer-dominated Go) of polypiece play and until proven otherwise no guarantee Computer will have easy time at it.<p> Actually there are about a hundred CVs that meet or exceed Kevin's twelve stipulations -- all twelve of them not just half or fewer of the requirements. <p> <a href="http://www.chessvariants.com/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=27016">Ranking</a>. Those are the order before AltOrthHex was put tenth. Joe Joyce made the most contribution besides myself, and I did the project more to organize in mind all the top big CVs. It is just a topic with absolutely no sanctioning whatsoever of course, but at least each entry was explained. Seirawan Chess is ranked last, and I would not even nominate the other two above.