George Duke wrote on Mon, Oct 27, 2008 04:52 PM UTC:
These are all Track One. Year 2013: Wildebeest(10x11), Fantasy Grand
Chess(10x10), Venator(68 squares). As much play as possible of each of
these three enlargements during 2013 will help sort them among the CV
pantheon. Intervening years already have scheduled: 2009 Modern, Mastodon,
Eurasian; 2010 Centennial, Templar, Unicorn Great; 2011 Switching,
Seirawan, Black Ghost; 2012 Big Board, Courier de la Dama, Eight-Stone.
Wildebeest poses whether an improved return to some Turkish Great Chess
model could be solution. Fantasy Grand is the author's creation of a
Betza Chess Different Armies on 10x10. Unfortunately for Betza, he never
did that and stayed with 8x8 97% of the time, so I do not foresee any
''Betza'' here besides Black Ghost during the '8x8' year 2011. Finally, admittedly Fantasy Grand Chess is Track Two also (Joyce and I have debated the area of overlap), but deliberately we want one where sides are different, so be sure to play FGC at least once all during 2013.