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Many thanks also to our volunteers, which includes our entire staff. Being a volunteer here is a practically thankless job (except perhaps once a year!), but we do find it rewarding to be able to support this site, and help foster an interest in chess variants all over the world.

Happy New Year! Thanks to David for all his work to keep this site going
(especially the difficult site maintenance necessities).

Seconded!  Thirded!  Thanks, all ye Editors, and a special 'Hats Off' to
Dr. Fergus Duniho, Webmaster Extraordinaire, and all you other guys who
come up with so much interesting chess stuff, for making this one of my
favorite places.  Happy New Year!

i know i'm late with this, but happy new year everyone, thanks to David
and Fergus and all editors and contributors, readers and players etc etc,
hope all is fine and well, thanks for making this site the best chess
variant site in world (yes the world) !!!!
So many great variants created last year, hope this year brings many more,
which i'm sure it will!

Happy 2007, and thanks to the many of you in the chess variants community
who have been so generous and kind to me. You've made this a very special
year for me, thank you. Looking forward to finishing old games and starting
new ones in 2007, finishing old interviews, posting them and starting new
ones.

Jeremy, thanks to you too for all your contributions, especially the
presets!

Christine's comment about many more variants is interesting. I've often
marvelled at the seemingly endless bounty out there. This site is like the
goose that lay the golden eggs. That's why I completely agree with the
open-ended editorial approach. Sure, many games are a passing fancy, but a
few are trully golden, and they only emerge after being tried in the fire
of this community. Will there ever be a 'rococo' period, where good
ideas dry up and we are left with empty frills? (No pun on Peter's excellent 
game intended!!) I don't know, but it's not today! Happy New Year.

The work of the editors is very much appreciated, but I know it can
sometimes seem that your hard work and time spent is taken for granted.  I
can assure you, it is not.

Thanks to all of you for the great 2006 year..., and indeed, for the
previous years and years to come... your hard work is greatly
appreciated.

In closing, here is a little Latin verse that I think can be applied to
our world of chess variants, and to our lives in general:

        crescat scientia vita excolatur 

   which means: 'let knowledge grow, let life be enriched'