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Hall of Champions

Since the founding of The Chess Variant Pages in 1995, we have hosted a number of contests in various areas of chess. While our design contests have been most popular, we have also held PBEM tournaments, solving contests, and composition contests.

This page has been compiled to honor the champions of our many events. We look forward to adding a lot of names to this list in all five areas in later years.

Annual Variant Design Contests (N-Squares)

1997 - 38 Squares (17 entries): Ben Good for Crazy 38's
1998 - 39 Squares (15): Seth McGinnis for Robber-Baron
1999 - 40 Squares (22): Darren Izzard for Philosophers Chess
2000 - 41 Squares (22): Tony Quintanilla for Take Over Chess
2001 - 42 Squares (21): João Pedro Neto for Life, the Universe and Everything
2002 - 43 Squares (15): Erez Schatz. Duel Chess
2004- 44 Squares (21): Peter Aronson. Prisoner's Escape

Other Variant Design Contests

1999 Large Variant (37): Nathan McDonald for Vyrémorn Chess
2000 32 Turns (12): Peter Aronson for Rolling Kings
2000 100 Squares (13): Peter Aronson for Jumping Chess
2002 84 Spaces (33): Timothy Newton for Outback Chess

Email Tournaments

1997 1st Progressive Fischer Random Chess (21): Alfred Pfeiffer, 10.0/11
1998 2nd Progressive Fischer Random Chess (13): Doug Hyatt, 8.0/9
2001 Chess With Different Armies (4): David Paulowich, finals score unposted
2003 Multivariant (5): Michael Howe has clinched the title, final score not yet known

Solving Contests

1999 Kriegspiel (4): O. Ronat
2001 Hexagonal Chess (6): Peter Aronson

Problem Composition Contests

2001 Pocket Knight (3): Manfred Rittirsch & Franz Pachl (2nd prize highest awarded)

Dates are the year of opening, except tournaments which are the year play began.

Written by Glenn Overby II.

WWW page created: April 11, 2003. Last modified: February 6, 2005.

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Created on: April 11, 2003. Last modified on: February 07, 2005.