George Duke wrote on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 06:57 PM UTC:
Okay. Both Not Particularly News
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/not-particularly-new.html
are nominated for #28 before #29 Gifford's Time Travel and after a yet
to be named #26 J. Smith and #27 Gilman. You will find out in spring 2010 whether Not Particular New is better than Fischer Random(10) or even Unicorn Great(5) by objective criteria. There is no mistake in the rankings so far, but towards 50 entrants there is more nuance. Maybe these ranked-for-approvals
will reach 100 not just 50. It is okay to have overlap of analysis Track One and Track Two. For example, Eight-Stone's review in context of Next Chess Track One admires it as excellent Track Two,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24663.
In fact, by 2011 there will be Track Twos in their separate rankings. Notwithstanding, Eight-Stone (#17) and Transactional(#15) will only be Track One, as they fared well enough there, the latter as once-number-one Kriegspiel stand-in. The first three Track Two nominees herewith for those later threads are Aronson's and Howe's Rococo, Izzard's Philosopher's, and Thompson's Tetrahedral. Probably, if you break it down, designer and CV, CV and designer, half the efforts by the various artists and scientists are intent on attention for Track One alternative, and the other half purely for fantasy and novelty not seeking wide play as some standard chess. Some of the fantasy ones are still worth thinking about for Track Two, but many appear too outlandish even for that. They all start with thought experiments, as announced by Cetina's tribute for Next Chess Sissa(#7):
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/sissa.html. Sissa invents Chaturanga:
http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=166.
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSmanandbeast17