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no one wrote on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 04:27 PM UTC:
This could be considered the well-known divide and conquer technique. In
politics, it's the spoiler phenomena. For this tournament, it will
likely
result in the majority of the games so named being eliminated. I have 2
suggestions:

A) Contact Mr. Duke, Mr. Joyce, and Mr. Paulowich, and ask them which
variant should be the one to be included in the poll. While Mr.
Capablanca
cannot be asked his preference, it could reasonably be assumed that the
game he designed would be the one he'd prefer. 

B) List only 5 games:
     Capablanca's
     Falcon
     Grand Shatranj
     Great Shatranj
     Mir
then let the players decide which version they want to play. In the case
of a tie, go with a predetermined game. While I may be mistaken, I
believe
Mr. Duke has expressed a preference for Falcon 100, Mr Joyce for the
'D'
variants, and Mr. Paulowich for Mir32.

Please note that I have listed 5 games, not 4. I do not find that there
is
a great similarity between Grand and Great Shatranj. I would point out
that
 these 2 games are doubly handicapped, as they are placed in a 4 way
contest between the 2 games. There are, in the D versions, 5 pieces
different of the 10 in the games. Promotion rules are different. The
boards also are of different sizes. What, exactly, is the criteria for
deciding difference? How do these games fall on one side of the line,
while games with apparently far fewer significant differences fall on the
other side? As a ridiculous example, Dimension X uses all the standard
chess pieces, and adds only 3 different pieces and more squares; Templar
Chess adds only 1 piece and a few more squares; Alice Chess only adds
more
squares. As another ridiculous example, the drop games all may be
considered quite similar. If different pieces, different boards and
different promotion rules don't differentiate adequately among games,
what does? One might gain the impression that these games are being
singled out for their theme. Yet in the same way, FRC and CRC are the
same, as is chess 256, chess 960....

I would respectfully ask that method B above be used for the tournament.
If the games really are that similar, it should not make much difference
which version is played in any game, should it?

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