Kevin Pacey wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2016 06:43 AM UTC:
I have a hypothetical question. If I would like to make an invitation for an opponent to play the variant "Chaturanga - Four Kings - Double Mate" against me, I seem to be faced with a slight problem. At the moment there seems to be just 1 preset for any sort of 4-handed Chaturanga (as played by two players on Game Courier). Though that preset is not rule enforcing, it also does not seem to provide a way to alert in advance anyone who might accept such an invitation that I would wish to play that particular version of 4-handed Chaturanga (i.e. "Chaturanga - Four Kings - Double Mate").
The only way to alert any potential opponent in advance of my intended choice of Chaturanga variant would, at the moment, seem to be for me to contact a particular person in advance, or wait for 1 (or more) person(s) to reply to a public comment I make, say, on chessvariants.com (such as this comment), and soon after for myself (or them) to issue them a personal invitation for us to play. Would that indeed be my only option at the moment so as to alert any potential opponent?
FYI, here's a link discussing this variant of 4-handed Chaturanga:
http://www.chessvariants.com/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSchaturangafour