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Same-style potluck tournaments ran their course at CVPage. Everyone agrees,
proven by fewer and fewer players. The best tournaments were the first one
or two, and NextChess4 is mostly about another one. It nears 25 comments,
over which takes a backscrolling link, hence NextChess5. Finally, CVPage
tournaments in the aughts ('00 to '09), the closing decade, became
vehicles for self-promotion.  Rich Hutnik seems to agree that a big problem
is players' pushing their own so-called inventions -- inventions that half
the time are entirely just new combinations of pre-existing pieces and
rules. Proliferation ties in with that problem of players' having to play
their own games. Instead it should be Pick Your Poison. There are 21 CVs
nominated for Next Chess,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24303
a list to be continued. They are to be workable
replacements of dead Mad Queen, to put the fun back into Chess. F.I.D.E. members in general know there are
serious problems, eventually to be insurmountable. ''Chess is dead,''
have said both Fischer and Nakamura. Notice ChessBase has curtailed
drastically computer-chess-engine coverage because the programs now beat
everyone to their rating lists' very top. It puts them in an awkward position. Something from the likes of the
21 nominees -- to be added to here 3 at a time -- can replace 64-square OrthoChess
by the 2020s. When they do, both Chess variants and Chess will have been
well served. Let the speculation continue here.