Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Jan 10, 2022 07:35 PM UTC:
One figure I've seen (on CVP website) is that 200 million play Chinese Chess (maybe low estimate), and I've seen elsewhere that 20 million play 9x9 shogi (again maybe too low). So, at the moment at least, both chess and Chinese Chess are the (2) most extremely popular CVs, to say the least.
edit: From the main page, a link to Fergus Duniho's ideas re: Designing good chess variants, fwiw:
One figure I've seen (on CVP website) is that 200 million play Chinese Chess (maybe low estimate), and I've seen elsewhere that 20 million play 9x9 shogi (again maybe too low). So, at the moment at least, both chess and Chinese Chess are the (2) most extremely popular CVs, to say the least.
edit: From the main page, a link to Fergus Duniho's ideas re: Designing good chess variants, fwiw:
https://www.chessvariants.com/opinions.dir/fergus/design.html