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David Paulowich wrote on Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:06 PM UTC:
[Mir Chess 32] will be my choice for 'best variant with elephants', if I ever get around to voting in this poll. I followed the somewhat unusual design course of starting with FIDE Chess and moving back in time, looking for weaker, more primitive, pieces.

[Modern Shatranj] is my second choice. Joe took the opposite design course of starting with Shatranj and moving forward. All things considered, I am willing to go along with the proposal by Fergus to group this game with my Mir Chess variants.

[Mir Chess 36] is my third choice - originally an attempt to squeeze most of the Shako pieces onto an 8x8 board.

[Shako] therefore becomes my fourth choice. Judging by the latest poll results, Shako may well be the only one of these four games to make it into the tournament. While I still have some misgivings about playing with short range pieces like elephants on a 10x10 board, I also believe that it would be an interesting game to play.


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