Comments/Ratings for a Single Item

Please nominate here further Next Chesses Track I including your own as #30, #31 and #32 for
up-ordering into the 24 already ordered from #1 Bifurcators to #24
Seirawan. The only exclusion would be if any CV seems more fitting Track II as fanciful/imaginative. Not only well-known CVers' like Betza's #17 or Schmittberger's #14 could excel.
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=26445. A decision has been made for Joyce-nominated Time Travel to be proven/written up; that CV does make the present top ten. Thus out of convenience there was slight change of those queued for ordering:
#25 Time Travel, #26 CV by John Smith, #27
Alt-Orth Hex, #28 Not Particularly New, #29 other specific 'Gifford cv'
than T.T deferred by soon posting earlier than expected the T.T. review.

OK, can we nominate Spartan Chess, then?

The way Spartan Chess is being developed is reminiscent of year 2003
Luotuoqi, which also plural parties' comment, vote and input completed,
http://www.chessvariants.org/contests/luotuoqi.html. Okay, so then Spartan Chess as #30 is to be up-slotted at NextChess after #29 'a
Gifford yet to name'. Thanks for the nomination. At the over 25 comments Spartan Chess has reached, the first ones are being hacked off one by one without splitting. Anyway the preferred Spartan(s), they said is to have a regular write-up. In advance, expect Spartan Chess to be held up chiefly to Fantasy Grand(#16), http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/fantasygrandchess.html, for comparison. The reason is both are different armies CVs. Betza's deserving Chess Different Armies is omitted to help level the playing field, and he has Black Ghost(#17). In theory, CDA could be determined by committee as improvement to replace Fantasy Grand; just as even an individual's expressed detestation of some high-ranking CV would likely cause demotion a notch or two now. In fact, Winther objected to Big Board(#6) and at the right time Big Board goes down a bit for that reason alone respecting Winther's. Thus consider Sissa(#7) as prospective #6 in the Track I ranking, so being a work in progress and of context, not to say proactive.

Time Travel recommends additional Kings for markers. (1)Bifurcators > (2)Great Shatranj > (3)Time Travel > (4)Mastodon > (5)Three Player > (6)Unicorn Great > (7)Sissa > (8)Big Board  > (9)Eurasian > (10)Schoolbook > (11)Fischer Random > (12)Bilateral > (13)Centennial > (14)Kings Court > (15)Wildebeest.... The other Mutators, whether or not exclusively such, besides Time Travel now placed third would be Big Board, Fischer Random, Transactional(16), Eight-Stone(19), and Switching(24). http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=25116.
Jeremy Good describes how this does work with appropriate damping so things are not unwieldy:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=16576. How can Chess time travel? Analysis, Gifford explains, is 'what if?' time
travel, and T.T. Chess just puts that into practice when Problem Solving may be the fastest growing aspect: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6768. Joyce nominated Time Travel a year ago, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24679. These things take time. All travel forward up to 10, and King backwards up to 5 in process that Computer may, or may not, dislike. Candidates must be adjacent to King signalling something is up. Is backward-travelling King like Take-back? Yes, somewhat but only allowed are once or twice per game. Sports/games other than Chess have comparable substitutions or mis-directions, for example, skill gambling with odds always being in flux, Scrabble(tm) with continual renewal the tile-letters, bridge hands of cards each different. [Gifford has many CVs on the Track I/II interface hard to decide which category best suits for NextChess #29 nomination. Also relevant that Purvis has Time Traveler's Chess with rules lost in time at this moment.]

Next up for review in order are sort of nameless #26 ''Chess Variant,''
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSchessvariant, #27 AltOrth Hex, #28 Not Particularly New, #29 'a Gifford', #30 Spartan Chess.  ''Chess Variant'' previously I rated excellent and J. Smith rated Average in comments; unless J. Smith recommends a substitution, it is next to slot in the ranking. Of 4000 Chess Variant Page CVs, conceivably 400 are
Excellent (others may find 100 or 800), so it is unpredictable yet where
''Chess Variant'' will land after consideration among this subset of only 25 cvs listed so far. To begin with, it looks to compare by features most with Bilateral(12).

Unicorn Great is still top-tenned, mistakenly left one recent (partial)
listing. What is going to happen, since ranks, as #xx, have been referred to
a lot recently, Big Board for convenience moves to reevaluation category
and Unicorn was already at/around that one's position over a year. There
are really three Carreras: Unicorn Great, Modern, and Schoolbook, only the
latter pure. The slight correction will be timely listed, so that all the
other 24, retain present number. At that time, Big Board will be explained
to be chiefly Mutator, like Switching and Seirawan.

This, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSchessvariant,
is going up as #12.  That keeps Fischer Random as #11 and displaces
Bilateral to #13 and Centennial to #14 etc.  The reply is stereotyped and sketchy.  Almost exactly 300 years apart were Centaur plus Champion in 1617 and Nightrider plus Grasshopper both around 1912. Sources claiming so late as 1925 for Nightrider are mistaken by information on file through British Chess Magazine.

Towards the new Magna Charter of Chess in year 2029, as necessary, ex post
facto and implementable irrespective of boundaries, here are the standings
after putting what will be called ''JSmithCV''(#12).
(1) Bifurcators > (2) Great Shatranj > (3) Time Travel > (4) Mastodon > (5)
Three Player > (6) Unicorn Great > (7) Sissa > (8) Big Board > (9) Eurasian
(10) Schoolbook > (11) Fischer Random > (12) JSmithCV > (13) Bilateral >
(14) Centennial > (15) Kings Court > (16) Wildebeest > (17) Transactional > (18) Fantasy Grand > (19) Black Ghost > (20) Eight-Stone > (21) Modern > (22) Melee > (23) Templar > (24) Courier de la Dama > (25) Switching > (26) Seirawan. 

Occasional re-establishing stated rationales with the hierarchy proven each
step of the way, having no time limits affords framework mutable and
rebuttable by future play, reference or selective countermand, for instance
case occurring uncertain to others misrepresentative/plagiaristic in degree
unknown.  (Some lack of citation being tolerable even inevitable this
artistic and inventive field)
Next to in-slot are #27 AltOrth Hex, #28 Not Particularly New, and #29 'a  Gifford'.

Next up in the project are #27 AltOrth Hex, #28 Not Particularly New, #29
'a Gifford', #30 Chess Different Armies including Pizza Kings, #31 'A.
Black to be named', #32 a 'J.Carrillo to be named'.  Right now, adding
the latter two for nomination, they all except C.D.A. to evaluate have been
based lately on authorship, ''prolificist'' in the better sense of
several cvs from which to choose.

Informal NextChess Track One has 26 cvs here in mutable ranking from
Bifurcators(#1) and Great Shatranj(#2) to Seirawan(#26).   Winther's current
comment,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=27429 and
Muller's,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=27281, are
why there is long-intended split into three. Track I, under way for 3
years, is Muller's regular cvs, and Track II is Muller's wild ones, what
Winther characterizes as about 1/2 of the 6000 cvs of cvpage and of
Pritchard's 'ECV'. Track M, Modest, will be for likes of Winther's
Placement Chess, Hutnik's Eurasian Pawn Chess, Daniel's King to Bunker
Leap. It will be useful to re-animate FRC(#11) for Track Modest too, or
Eight-Stone for Track II.  Here starts new Track II ranking for cvs wild
and far from orthoChess of f.i.d.e. 64:  Rococo > Tetrahedral Chess. The
reasoning is that brilliant Tetrahedral is more purely a concept cv than
playable cv, and Rococo captures both attributes.  Both above and below
Leaping/Missing Bat and Tetrahedral are by different mathematicians.