Jeremy Good wrote on Sat, Aug 4, 2007 01:30 PM UTC:
I'd like to go ahead and extend the process of choosing a contest theme by one month and ask that we choose our contest by October First instead of September First. What I hope to have in place by September First is the MAM Condorcetian method for choosing a variant, along with a few yes or no polling questions. ('Should we combine themes?' will be one such question. For 'Yes' votes, I hope to give a few options about how to combine them.) I believe this will be the least chaotic, the most participatory and inclusive. It would be a shame to move away from that great voting variant.
I'm planning to extend this process for a few reasons. We are having a very interesting discussion here about what forms of variants to work with and I think we should be allowed to have a pure discussion without so much pressure to choose. I need time and help to put in place the polling technique. Many people are doing various summer recreational things and don't have as much time as they would like to think about this contest.
Graeme and Cavebear, thank you for your additional suggestions. I will update the page shortly to include them. On the subject of Simultaneous Chess, John Kipling Lewis has been working on a very interesting such variant for years which he discussed with us once on the chess variants yahoogroup and I'll hope to post some information about that soon.
Thanks to everyone for all your suggestions. Keep them coming.
Thanks to Michael Howe for sharing his variant here.
I'm planning to extend this process for a few reasons. We are having a very interesting discussion here about what forms of variants to work with and I think we should be allowed to have a pure discussion without so much pressure to choose. I need time and help to put in place the polling technique. Many people are doing various summer recreational things and don't have as much time as they would like to think about this contest.
Graeme and Cavebear, thank you for your additional suggestions. I will update the page shortly to include them. On the subject of Simultaneous Chess, John Kipling Lewis has been working on a very interesting such variant for years which he discussed with us once on the chess variants yahoogroup and I'll hope to post some information about that soon.
Thanks to everyone for all your suggestions. Keep them coming.
Thanks to Michael Howe for sharing his variant here.