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Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Thu, Oct 19, 2023 04:58 PM UTC in reply to A. M. DeWitt from 03:47 PM:

Adam, I find this process more frustrating than anything else. I see that people start now to suggest their own games, which is against the rules, understandbly.

Hectochess has not been selected because it is "descendent" from Gross Chess. Apparently, this reason was not a problem to feature Gross Chess after Eurasian Chess.

I have had a similar experience with my games. Shako had been featured, then someone proposed Metamachy and Metamachy was rejected because it is in the same "category" than Shako.

But I smiled when I read that "I'll make Expanded Chess the featured variant for September, 2023. It is the most favorited of games that have been nominated and seconded, and it has a good web page." Expanded Chess is a very good game indeed, but it is favored 10 times while Metamachy is favored 14 times.

14 is a fair score, but it is not enough to be featured. Why? Because it has been nominated but not SECONDED! Look, I am the one who had proposed Hectochess. Actually I had proposed Hectochess along with a list of 8 or 9 games, all those (not authored by me) that I had selected for my book More Chess and More Than Chess. So Hectochess, Opulent Chess, Expanded Chess, Gross Chess, Eurasian Chess, Elven Chess, etc. All belonging to the same "category".

I had been generous doing that. Unfortunately for me, nobody has returned me the courtesy. So only 1 person has nominated Metamachy and it would be necessary to have another one (if you are among the 14 who had favored Metamachy, maybe you could consider to nominate it too, just for fun!)

This is a bit childish. HG has tried to propose another direction, that we distinguish between nomination, feature, etc. Why not? I think it could be good. But, it doesn't work like this for the moment, partly by my fault because by proposing my long list, I have inserted a list of games which all belong to the same category. So, only 1 single other voice is enough to have 1 of these games seconded, while any others (including mines) need 2 voices at least. And there are not many voices speaking for someone else's games.


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