Poll for the New Recognized Chess Variant of Spring 2006

This is the Spring 2006 poll for adding a new game to our list of recognized chess variants. It will be the new addition for the Spring season of 2006. The winner of this poll will be added to the list, and it will subsequently become a candidate in polls for selecting the recognized variant of the month. The lowest ranked game in this poll will be removed from the list of candidates. For the sake of keeping the recognized variants list focused on the best in various categories, I also propose to remove any candidates sufficiently similar to the winner. The sufficiently similar sets of variants are these: (a) Ca�ssa Britannia and Eurasian Chess and (b) Maxima and Rococo. Here are the candidates:

Berolina Chess: "It is played on Brainking and the Berolina Pawn looks as natural as the Cardinal and the Marshall." -- Antoine Fourri�re
Ca�ssa Britannia: The game originally known as British Chess. Played in the Second Game Courier Tournament
Capablanca Random Chess: First place winner of the Contest to design a 10-chess variant.
Cavalier Chess: Chosen for the 2003 Multivariant PBEM Tournament and the First Game Courier Tournament.
Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added: One of the games chosen for the 2003 Multivariant PBEM Tournament.
Dark Chess: This chess variant can be played on 3 game servers (BrainKing, SchemingMind and ItsYourTurn) and is a quite popular. I personally consider it the best chess variant with incomplete information, with elegant rules and more interesting to play then Kriegspiel. -- Andreas Kaufmann.
Eurasian Chess: Chosen for the First Game Courier Tournament
Great Chess: Played in the Second Game Courier Tournament
Jumping Chess: First place winner of the 100 Squares Chess Variant Contest.
Kamikaze Mortal Shogi: Played in the First Game Courier Tournament and the Second Game Courier Tournament.
Maxima: Played in the First Game Courier Tournament and the Second Game Courier Tournament.
Outback Chess: First place winner of the 84 Spaces Contest.
Philosopher's Chess: First place winner of the 40 squares contest.
Rococo: Played in the 2003 Multivariant PBEM Tournament and the Second Game Courier Tournament.
Switching Chess: Played in the Second Game Courier Tournament

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Comments

Poll number New Recognized Variant Poll for Spring 2006. Vote for our next new recognized variant before the end of Spring.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 09:06 AM EDT:

Berolina Chess has won the poll.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 10:44 PM EDT:

This poll ends at the end of Spring, and Summer begins on the 21st. Vote for which game should be our next recognized variant before this poll runs out of time.