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Greg Strong wrote on Sat, May 13, 2017 05:35 PM UTC:

@Nick:

Congratulations on your new baby girl!  Regarding time controls, my thought is that the default will be the "Correspondance - Tournament" time control (14 days spare time, 24 hours grace period, 8 hours bonus time) but that any pair of players that mutually agree to do something different are free to do so as long as the game finishes in some reasonable amount of time.  Regarding the 8th category, I deliberately left that open but the basic idea is that each participant can bring a game of his choosing.  I like your suggestion that inventors can't play their own games in the 8th category.  I think that makes things more fair and resolves another problem - since each participant would only play one game from the 8th category, both players in a match would want to play their game but only one could.  It is more fair that neither can.  Also, I think this restriction should only apply to the 8th category (participant's invention.)

@Fergus:

I didn't establish that there is an existing preset for all of these, but I don't think that any are unplayable.  I'm guessing you are asking because of Diamond Chess.  Game Courier doesn't draw the board rotated 45 degrees, but you could certainly play it anyway.  Or we could just drop it or replace with something else.  I was just looking for a fifth game to round out the category.  I should also say that it is not my intent to dictate with this game list.  While I hope that we don't have to change it too much, since I want to avoid long, drawn-out debates or having to host formal polls, it is certainly subject to chage.  And since you've done the most work of anyone to keep this website going all these years, and I think everyone respects your opinion, if you'd like to swap out any games from that list, just say the word.

@Carlos:

While I think rule-enforcement is certainly desirable, I do not think it should be required.


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