Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Jan 8, 2022 10:04 PM UTC:
I thought there was an article about Decimal variants (10x10) somewhere on this CVP site, but I cannot seem to find such. In any case, I was thinking, yet again, that the late John William Brown (inventor of Centennial Chess) might have been right. That is, that the next step (or maybe final step, if the resulting variant(s) chosen are practically inexhaustible) for orthodox chess' evolution (in order to stay extremely popular) is to go on to some 10x10 variant replacement.
What I'm hoping for is that there are already good candidates from which a list can be compiled. Maybe Grand Chess, and perhaps Shako, are close to being promising for future great popularity. Opulent Chess may be a good candidate too, based on the Members' Favorites list for CVP, alone. Centennial chess may be a good candidate too, except I find certain of its pieces rather exotic (the rules of FIDE chess are fairly simple, perhaps necessary for a game to be quite popular).
edit: here's a link to what I may have vaguely recalled - a 10-chess contest, in which the number 10 plays a role somehow (hence a new contest, to design a 10x10 CV, suggests itself):
I thought there was an article about Decimal variants (10x10) somewhere on this CVP site, but I cannot seem to find such. In any case, I was thinking, yet again, that the late John William Brown (inventor of Centennial Chess) might have been right. That is, that the next step (or maybe final step, if the resulting variant(s) chosen are practically inexhaustible) for orthodox chess' evolution (in order to stay extremely popular) is to go on to some 10x10 variant replacement.
What I'm hoping for is that there are already good candidates from which a list can be compiled. Maybe Grand Chess, and perhaps Shako, are close to being promising for future great popularity. Opulent Chess may be a good candidate too, based on the Members' Favorites list for CVP, alone. Centennial chess may be a good candidate too, except I find certain of its pieces rather exotic (the rules of FIDE chess are fairly simple, perhaps necessary for a game to be quite popular).
edit: here's a link to what I may have vaguely recalled - a 10-chess contest, in which the number 10 plays a role somehow (hence a new contest, to design a 10x10 CV, suggests itself):
https://www.chessvariants.com/contests/10/index.html