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Here's what I'm proposing. Each player plays two games of Chess, Shogi
and Xiangqi in a round-robin. They're assigned a random number (privately
drawn by the organizer).

If there are nine players, it goes:

     1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9

1        C   X   S           s   x   c
2    c       C   X   S           s   x 
3    x   c       C   X   S           s      
4    s   x   c       C   X   S        
5        s   x   c       C   X   S    
6            s   x   c       C   X   S
7    S           s   x   c       C   X
8    X   S           s   x   c       C
9    C   X   S           s   x   c

(meaning that player 1 plays as White at Chess against player 2, and so
on.)  


The four higher-ranked players (ex aequo players being ranked as in
GC1/GC2 Tournament) will play three extra games.

     1   2   3   4  

1        S   C   X 
2    s       X   C
3    c   x       S 
4    x   c   s  

If two players have the same number of points (the round-robin doesn't
matter any more) and have drawn at Chess or Xiangqi, they play one extra
Shogi game.


Draws by mutual agreement at Shogi are not allowed. But in case a game of
Shogi takes too much time in the round robin, the referee (or a substitute
if the referee has some interest in the case) allows a draw by mutual
agreement, allows seven days to each player, or gives 0.25 to both players
or 0.5 to one player and 0 to the other (say, for being back on time and on
material after 100 moves), as he wishes.