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Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: chilipepper Date: January 23, 2018, 9:07 pm
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I'm not aware of any international committee which governs chess
variant games, nor oversees variant chess-game tournaments. So I
decided to collect some information on recent and active
tournaments, and who is regarded as our current World Champions.
The table below is just a start, and I presume there is much
more that can be added. If you have any information to add
please share! :)
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: January 23, 2018, 9:12 pm
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I'm the American champion of Sittuyin according to the online
tournament I set up which I won.
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: chilipepper Date: January 23, 2018, 9:29 pm
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[quote author=Asher Hurowitz link=topic=43.msg205#msg205
date=1516763567]
I'm the American champion of Sittuyin according to the online
tournament I set up which I won.
[/quote]
So cool! It's good to know that the founder of this forum has
credibility, and can win games!
I see that it's played on an 8x8 board. Are you aware if any
engines can play it? The reason I like to add that information
is so we know if it can be played in an online format, with slow
time-control, and know for sure the player(s) aren't using
engines.
Also, what year was the tournament? I can go back a few years in
this summary. I'll add details to the chart within a few days.
8)
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: HGMuller Date: January 24, 2018, 4:04 am
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I think Sjaak II features Sittuyin as one of the preconfigured
variants.
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: GothicChessInventor Date: January 24, 2018, 8:43 am
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I think you need to include the size of the playing population
and the number of players in the event that determines the
"world championship." If there are fewer than 10000 players, I
would not think this represents a title with a "world" prefix.
If there are fewer than 2000 then I don't think you can claim to
be the champion of any country. If less than 500 then you are
talking about, at best, a "state" or "province" championship.
And if less than 100, I would not think even the title of a City
Champion applies.
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: HGMuller Date: January 24, 2018, 9:19 am
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In 2016 I became 'Dutch Champion Superchess', in a tournament
with only 8 participants. It didn't really feel like being
champion of anything. (Although it was very nice that I beat a
player rated ~2400 in orthodox Chess to it!)
The 'World Champions' mentioned above were determined in a
tournament with approximately 4 players, the event never having
been announced to a wider audience... At least the Dutch
Superchess championship was announced on all Chess clubs, and on
the superchess.nl website.
'Bulldog Chess' and 'Waterloo' are totally unknown even on
chessvariants.com, which hosts descriptions of thousands of
Chess variants. This is basically like two people cooking up a
game in their cellar, playing it secretly against each other,
and then declaring themselves 'Wold Champion'.
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: chilipepper Date: January 24, 2018, 9:34 am
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[quote author=HGMuller link=topic=43.msg208#msg208
date=1516788247]
I think Sjaak II features Sittuyin as one of the preconfigured
variants.
[/quote]
Thanks HGMuller. I currently don't see that in one list I see of
variants supported by Sjaak II (link below). Can anyone confirm
it? ???
HTML http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: chilipepper Date: January 24, 2018, 9:44 am
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[quote author=GothicChessInventor link=topic=43.msg209#msg209
date=1516805004]
I think you need to include the size of the playing population
and the number of players in the event that determines the
"world championship."...
[/quote]
The list represents tournaments that are open to the
international community. I plan to add other tournaments from
the last three years as I learn about them. I'm currently not
requiring a minimum entry requirement, so long as the tournament
isn't restricted to a single club or one country.
I would like to add the list of countries represented in each
tournament, but I'm afraid that might make the table too
cumbersome. For now (to my knowledge) the games represent
players from the following countries:
The Waterloo series included players from Ukraine, England, and
the U.S.
The Bulldog series included players from India, China, the
Netherlands, Mexico, Singapore, the U.S. and others.
The Chess on an Infinite Plane series includes players from
Switzerland, Singapore, Uganda, China, and the U.S.
Any other information about these or other tournaments is
welcome! :)
[quote author=HGMuller link=topic=43.msg211#msg211
date=1516807164]
In 2016 I became 'Dutch Champion Superchess', in a tournament
with only 8 participants...
[/quote]
Congratulations on the win! To me that sounds very impressive
and I'll add that to the list of tournaments. If you hear about
any other open tournaments for the game please share the
information here! :)
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: GothicChessInventor Date: January 24, 2018, 10:00 am
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Well in the year 2000, the first year of Gothic Chess, we had (I
think) 400 people to play for the "US Championship" but most of
the people who made the finals were from Philadelphia. There
were players from Washington, D.C., a few places in New Jersey,
two came from New York city. It was mixed swiss elimination
(online) to get to the final group, then a double round robin
over-the-board. In total there were 20 rounds.
While that was probably a larger playing population than some of
these variants, I had no illusions about being the "United
States Champion."
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Re: Who are Today's World Champions in Variant Chess?
By: McGoohan Date: January 24, 2018, 10:15 am
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I agree principally with GothicChessInventor and HGMuller.
In 2017 a new chess-variant of AntonioEsfandiari was invented:
"Knights And Queens".
On chess.com was a tournament launched with 20 participants on
February 2, 2017 with this new variant, which I won in December
2017.
HTML https://www.chess.com/tournament/knights-and-queens-unrated
After the final I was the only player who did not lose a single
game and won all 18 games. I was the best player, but that does
not make me a world champion. That would be a very formal legal
title with no real justification, even if 20 million chess
players are active on chess.com and everyone could have
participated in the tournament.
Nevertheless, the list from chilipepper can be useful, which
people in which variants are best players. And maybe this helps
make chess variants more popular if we have our own "stars".
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