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David, I quote:
'Talking about chess variants is more complicated than playing them!'
Not against you! And welcome to the ranks of the proliferationists - I
counted, you've got 15 listed games.

George, you're light-years ahead of me in this discussion. Your point 9 -
on Monopoly - almost everyone I know who played Monopoly had some variant
they preferred to play - paying some money to the 'Free Parking' square,
so whoever landed directly on it would get that $$$; borrowing money from
other players, selling back a hotel or a house or two to the bank, not
mortgaging; double payday for landing directly on 'Go'; changing the
initial requirement of having 1 property on all 4 sides of the board
before you can buy any others... I have a diplomacy board where the
largest area in Russia is split in half, and a city is added to one of the
halves, modifying the game for 4 players to play 2 countries each -
positions of a player's 2 countries determined by handicapping the
players. Baseball - the pitcher's mound has been raised and lowered, the
distances have been adjusted between the bases, I believe [not recently]
and to the mound. Ball and bat weights and compositions have been changed,
as has the strike zone. In fact, each umpire has his/her own strike zone,
and the pros play to those zones. As people get bigger, stronger, faster.
and quicker, these things will change again. Yes, these changes are minor,
but they go on all the time - ditto football, basketball...