This page contains information about a contest that will take place in 1999. Entries for this contest will be "large" chess variants. There will be an initial submission period, followed by a general vote in which anyone may participate. From this voting, the four top finalists will be selected. These four games will then be playetested by our volunteer playtesters. After the playtesting is completed, the playtesters will then be allowed to participate in the vote to determine the winner of the contest.
I reserve the right to reject any game that I feel is
obviously not a large chess
variant, not playable by email, or for some other reason is
unsuitable for this contest. And since these games will appear on
Hans' web site, the submissions will also have to be approved by him.
The submitter will be given latitude to
convince me (or Hans) otherwise, but once the voting begins, it will not be possible
to allow any more submissions into the contest.
Timeline
Date | Event |
---|---|
1 Jan 1999 | Call for submissions |
30 Apr 1999 | Deadline for submissions |
1 May 1999 | Call for playtesters |
1 May 1999 | Voting for finalists begins |
31 Jul 1999 | Voting for finalists ends |
1 Aug 1999 | Finalists selected |
1 Aug 1999 | Playtesting begins |
30 Nov 1999 | Playtesting ends |
1 Dec 1999 | Playtester voting for winner begins |
31 Dec 1999 | Playtester voting for winner ends |
The winner of the contest will get a T-Shirt, a copy of the Chess Variant pages on CD-ROM (courtesy of Hans Bodlaender), and a copy of "Zillions of Games" or "Grand Chess" game software (winners choice).
The three other finalists will get a copy of the Chess Variant
pages on CD-ROM, and possibly other prizes (TBD).
Contacts
David Howe | alcove@frontiernet.net |
1 The range of 104 to 216 was determined as follows: to get the lower limit, the number of squares in a normal chess board (64) was added to the number of pieces used in a normal chess game (32). To this was added 8, which represents an extra row, or 4 extra pieces per side.
To get the upper limit, the number of squares in a 12x12 chess board (144) was added to the number of pieces that would occupy the same ratio of pieces to squares as a normal chess game (72).