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Since it's late, I'm already very tired, and I want to give some time for
giving you all notice of which games you're playing next, I'll make the
game assignments for the games listed in my previous message tomorrow.

In the meantime, I want to settle on the method used for selecting armies
in Chess with Different Armies. David Paulowich suggested giving Black
first choice and White second choice with full knowledge of Black's
choice. Greg Strong pointed out that doing it this way would give an extra
advantage to White, and he suggested instead to follow the same order of
choices but to not let White know of Black's choice before making his
own. Of course, giving an order to the choices makes sense here only if
both players may not use the same army. Let's assume that this is
desired. One problem arises with Greg's method. When White has to make a
second choice because his first is taken by Black, he then knows what
Black has chosen, and he can choose the army he thinks is the best match
for it. Thus, White would still sometimes have the advantage of knowing
what Black has chosen. So I propose this instead. Give first choice to
White and, with Black knowing what White has chosen, give second choice to
Black. This would give the advantage of a more informed choice to Black.
What do the rest of you think of this?