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May I ask you to specify the problems about these variants? For now, I'll abstain from talking about eight of these, but I will approve replacement for Dababah-Qi if it would change board, opening position and palace, and not set of pieces, because I like how it adopts Xiang-Qi, but board could be better.
Don't you think the better place to post this would be page of your own game?
Actually I was thinking not of minor improvements, which I have carried out on many of my variants, but with completely new variants unrelated to the ones that they would be replacing, much in the way that my page of modest variants replaced Voyager. Sorry if I did not make this clear. The reasons are now included in the pages for the individual variants, and in those marked * below I had placed the theme too strongly ahead of creating a worthwhile and playanble game. In addition:
3 to the 5 was intended to showcase pieces now better showcased by a more recent variant.
3 player Dabbaba Qi and Hex Dabbaba Qi were steps along a path culminating in the much better Trebuqi.
Epping Forest Chess *, Ksmil Crater Chess *, and Neutral Subject Chess are memory-heavy.
Half Shoxiang had a poor response for the original variant and no counterbalancing response for the supposedly better one.
Maharajah's Well Chess * has a very unorthodox board.
Sultan's Elephant Chess * looks like a spoof and coined "Sultan's" piece before I devised a piece actually named the Sultan.
3 to the 5 was intended to showcase pieces now better showcased by a more recent variant.
3 player Dabbaba Qi and Hex Dabbaba Qi were steps along a path culminating in the much better Trebuqi.
Epping Forest Chess *, Ksmil Crater Chess *, and Neutral Subject Chess are memory-heavy.
Half Shoxiang had a poor response for the original variant and no counterbalancing response for the supposedly better one.
Maharajah's Well Chess * has a very unorthodox board.
Sultan's Elephant Chess * looks like a spoof and coined "Sultan's" piece before I devised a piece actually named the Sultan.
I have wondered about replacing Maharajah's Well Chess with a modest Maharajah v Sepoys variant in which a piece making a long-range move is "in a well" in the sense of creeping back one rank immediately after its move, but am unconvinced of the merits of such a game.
Well, if these replacements are completely different, I don't see much reasonship in removing the older pages. Anyway, they are a kind of personal history.
But I could suggest to unite related games in one page (e.g., place Dababah-Qi and Trebu-Qi in one page, titled as "None-straightforward hex Xiang-Qi variant" or some another common title; perhaps, in reversed order, as last one is the best).
But I could suggest to unite related games in one page (e.g., place Dababah-Qi and Trebu-Qi in one page, titled as "None-straightforward hex Xiang-Qi variant" or some another common title; perhaps, in reversed order, as last one is the best).
The reason why I want to get rid of the listed variants is decluttering - clearing out variants that I feel lower the reputation of my contributions overall. They might be part of a personal history but they are not a very interesting or edifying part of it. Grades in internal exams at secondary school are part of people's personal history, but who knows or cares a decade later what anyone's such grades were, however great their later achievements?
The Trebuqi page mentions, and always will, that there were precursors to that game and might even give their names, but I see no need to include the rules of the older games. Most of the rest do not resemble any later or better variant, because they were never even suited to leading to such games.
I would like to do some de-cluttering, or at least consolidating, too, for my own variants. Can relate.
It appears that at the time I launched this thread I had not posted the "Up-for Replacement" explanations in the introduction to each variant. Sorry for the mix-up, I had edited the master documents but forgotten that I had not uploaded them. I have now posted them and you can all read them on the pages to which the original comment lists links.
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3 to the 5
3 player Dabbaba Qi
Epping Forest Chess
Half Shoxiang
Hex Dabbaba Qi
Kamil Crater Chess
Maharajah's Well Chess
Neutral Subject Chess
Sultan's Elephant Chess
Of those nine I would be especially interested to know which ones other CVP members think should go, as well as any that you think I have been too harsh with and should retain.