The Chess Variant Pages

Voting on the variants

Fifteen chess variants have been submitted in the competition to design a chess variant on a board with 39 squares. We need your help to find out which are the best variants of these.

The procedure is as follows. There are two rounds of judgement.

In Round 1, everyone can vote on some or all of the variants. Give each game one of the following notes:

Inventors are requested to give the last category to their own game.

After the first round, the average number of points for the games are considered. For example, suppose there are four voters. (I hope to have many more, but lets keep the example small.) One votes for a certain game `Excellent'; two vote for that game `Good'; and one votes `Did not play'. That would give an average of (3+2+2)/3 = 2.333 (last digit rounded) points.

The first round of voting ends March 1, 1999, unless some games have not received at least five votes. In that case, I will do my best to get for each game at least five votes, and the first round of voting will end a little later.

In Round 2, the four games that ended highest in round 1 are judged. Everyone can vote anew in this round, but every voter in round 2 must vote for each of these four games. This round of voting is planned to end April 21, 1999.

In addition, one can propose honorary mentions and special awards for games that did not arrive in the best four - but not for a game one invented oneself.

The judgement of the best game for young children is done independently from this procedure.

How to vote

If you want to vote, just send an email with your name, and votes to hansb@cs.uu.nl. You will get a notification of receipt of this email from me; if not, your email may have get lost. (Due to filtering because of unwanted commercial emails, emails coming from several internet providers are automatically deleted by the email system at the Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University. Your email may be amongst these.) In that case, you can either send the vote on a postcard to Hans Bodlaender, Nedercamp 26, 3992 RP Houten, the Netherlands, or send it to David Howe, alcove@frontiernet.net.

In you voted Did not play, and you played the game after voting, you can send an additional vote.

Votes are treated confidential, and only seen by me.

In the future, we may perhaps make a handy form to vote.

Questions or remarks?

Email me: hansb@cs.uu.nl

Thank you!

Your help in judging which of these variants are the best is essential for this contest! So, thank you very much in advance for your votes. Have fun trying out these games!
Written by Hans Bodlaender.
WWW page created: December 10, 1998.
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