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💡📝Stephen Stockman wrote on Sat, Sep 23, 2006 04:06 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Grand Shatranj D has been added to the 2006 World Championship Tournament.

Place open invitations to play labeled World Championship to start your
games.

As Tournament Director I will list and monitor all tournament games.

e-mail me at taurusgames@charter.net with info and questions.

Sam Trenholme wrote on Sun, Sep 24, 2006 12:17 AM UTC:
You know, it's interesting because both Grand Chess and Circular chess, in fact have world champìonships and world champions (Grand Chess's world champion, John Vehre, has been known to play games right here on the variants server). The idea of a world champion for chess and all of chess' variants is an interesting one. It's like a triathlon, where the winner is a good swimmer, but not necessarily the world's best swimmer, a good bicyclist, but probably not as good as Lance Armstrong, and a good, but not world's best, runner.

I'm sure both Kramnik and Topalov would be beaten in Shogi by the world Shogi champion, but this doesn't make them poor FIDE chess players.

- Sam


Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Thu, Oct 12, 2006 04:05 AM UTC:
There was a recent comment saying that this should not be regarded as a 'world championship'. i just want to say here that i strongly disagree with that comment, i see no reason why this should not be seen, as indeed, a 'world championship'.

Jeremy Good wrote on Thu, Oct 12, 2006 09:12 AM UTC:
Interestingly, a recent USCF (United States Chess Federation) tournament in Florida mentioned a 'world progressive chess championship' as one of its sideline events. That event took place in the last month or two. I will attempt to contact the director of that event at some point in the future to find out more. I'll report my findings on this site.

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