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Ideas for future of chess variants[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Kevin Pacey wrote on Wed, Jan 12, 2022 04:41 AM UTC:

Tonight I went through Game Courier's list of all games, looking at those played at least 10 times, to date, to compile a preliminary list of 10x10 CVs. That is, for people to consider at leisure, to whittle them down to 1 or more possible 'Next Chess' candidates (if they could choose/predict), with the assumption that 10x10 is a very good board size (maybe the best). Some of these games I know have been played elsewhere, perhaps many times, and all seem interesting in one way or another:

  1. Eurasian Chess (x103);
  2. Grand Chess (x77);
  3. Shako (x63);
  4. Opulent Chess (x61);
  5. Sac Chess (x61);
  6. Caissa Britannia (x55);
  7. EuChess (x41);
  8. Colossus (x35);
  9. Expanded Chess (x27);
  10. Grand Cavalier Chess (x27);
  11. Unicorn Great Chess (x26);
  12. Storm the Ivory Tower (x25);
  13. Bear Chess (x24);
  14. Grand Shatranj (x23 = D & R versions in total);
  15. Wildebeest Chess Decimal (x18);
  16. TenCubed Chess (x17);
  17. Butterfly Chess (x15);
  18. Centennial Chess (x14);
  19. Great Chess (x14);
  20. Jetan (x11);
  21. Atlantean Barroom Shatranj (x11);
  22. Ajax Chess (x10);
  23. Mimic Chess (x10).

Edit: My own personal Next Chess candidates I can tentatively narrow to #2,3,4,6,8,9 and 13 in the list above.