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Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Sep 13, 2006 06:37 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
As well as excluding one's own variants it might be a good idea to
specify
excluding FIDE Chess as that is so familiar to most members to be
unfairly
advantaged. IUt cvertainly is in my case. East Asian members might
perhaps
exclude their respective national standard games too, although as a
European I feel free to include them. Following these rules, my own
favourites overall are:
	1 Shogi - many of its features appeal to me;
	2 Monteiro's 3d - showed me how to simplify some of my own 3d variants;
	3 Wildebeest - extending two-each-of-duals-plus-compound really appeals
to my mathematical side;
	4 Bachelor - win-by-marriage adds a new twist to many Queenless
variants;
	5 Eurasian - this was the variant that won me over to the Cannon piece
and its ilk.

My top 5 recognised are 1 Shogi, 2 Wildebeest, 3 Courier, 4 Xiang Qi, 5
Raumschach.

My top 5 unrecognised are 1 Monteiro 3d, 2 Bachelor, 3 Eurasian, 4
Bird/Capablanca/Carrera, 5 Circular.

Among runners-up I would include the Korean, Mongolian, and Thai national
variants together with Duke of Rutland, Maharajah+Sepoys, Timur's,
Toccata, and Yang Qi. These are alphabetical listings without internal
preferences.

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