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Hey George, several comments here:
1. I DON'T believe a 8x7 Simplified Chess should be the staring point.  I
believe 8x8 should be the starting point, because it is the most available.
 I believe 8x7 is a cool board to use for game designs, as a different way
to do things create variants.  It isn't THE starting place, just one of
the boards we can use.
2. I am not interested in me being THE leader on the standardized evolving
chess project.  I would like to be part of the process, to help, but I am
too busy with ALL abstract strategy games, to be focused on one the
niches.  Currently, I am involved with a Hall of Fame project, the IAGO
World Tour, helping abstract strategy game associations media coverage and
sponsors, and an IAGO Clubhouse project, to get people places to play
abstract strategy games and other players of these games.  There are other
things to.  So, I am too busy to head up this project.  I am up for helping
out and giving advice, but NOT work on it now.  Maybe IAGO gets off and
everything is going fine, I could jump in more.  But, a key about the
'Chess of Tomorrow' project, IAGO Chess System, and so on, is that it
needs to be a community that runs with it, not one person sitting as a mad
dictator on top.  Do you know a throng that is demanding that I lead this? 
If no, then I am no going to slave drive this.  I do say that leadership IS
needed though.  If people want to know how it should work, study the
concept of crowdsharing, and how Linux came abou.
3.  If people want a thread to discuss this Legos project, then please
feel free to find the 'Chess of Tomorrow' project on the Wiki page, and
IAGO Chess System:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSiagochesssyste

And start commenting.  Whatever becomes of standards out of this process
will become part of what IAGO does need.

4. I also don't think the chess variant community is in any place to
deliver ultimatums.  I once did that with a group of chess grandmasters
regarding their game, and the results didn't go well.  I ended up
spending the following week emails saying I was sorry.  I won't do that
again.