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Antoine Fourrière wrote on Sat, Jul 8, 2006 05:29 PM UTC:
I would suggest to hold a second Chess-Xiangqi-Shogi Tournament at the
beginning of next year, but not before the bulk of GCT#3 is over.
However, it might be worth discussing the Chess-Xiangqi-Shogi formula
right now. Should it still be a three-phase Tournament or should it be
completely revamped?
In my opinion, a two-phase Tournament would be simpler, with nine games in
the first phase (each player moving first twice at Chess and once at
Xiangqi or vice versa, since moving first as Shogi doesn't matter a lot),
and the players with two wins and a draw, or either two wins or a win and
two draws and enough points, advancing to the individual tournaments, with
the higher-ranked player always moving first, or enjoying a bye in some
situations. (This way, a single loss in the first phase wouldn't
completely bar a player from entering the Tournament for that variant.)
Of course, a one-phase Tournament would be even simpler, but then there
would be no Chess Champion, Xiangqi Champion or Shogi Champion, which
might turn off competitors who are mostly interested into one game, but
would be willing to enter a CXS Tournament because they might do well at
their favourite game in the second phase.
The formula should mostly depend of how many games the future participants
are willing to play.

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