Greg Strong wrote on Wed, Mar 21, 2018 11:00 PM UTC:
Ok, sorry I didn't notice Makruk. Obviously, as one of the most popular CVs in the world, that belongs here as well. It has now been added. I've also added Rococo to the Popular category. This game has established its popularity here for well over a decade, and it was the most popular game on the Our Favorites list that wasn't recognized. I remember reading that Pritchard was planning on including Rococo in the sequal to Encyclopedia of Chess Variants and was working with the editors on this (printing functionality added to Game Courier to make diagrams for the book maybe? It was something like that.)
I've removed the 'recognized' database flag from Chaturanga so it won't be highlighted as recognized in the lists any more. Thanks Kevin for pointing that out.
I'm not inclined to add anything else right now, although Eurasian and and possibly some of the other suggestions might well belong here. We're currently at 45 games and I could see the list going up to 50 (a nice round number), but these are the first additions in twelve years and we've just added four, so no need to rush it. I think we have corrected for the glaring omissions. I am going to work on adding the Recognized logo to the tops of the approprate game pages and probably modifying the text on this page somewhat to reflect how it differs from the other popular game lists.
I think for future additions, while popularity on this site is great, evidence of significant popularity in the world at large is more important. The Our Favorites and Game Courier Top 50 lists already provide insite into what is popular here. Another thing I'm going to do is flag some of the most popular games from these two lists in the database as 'primary' so that they also appear in the short list at the top of each alphabetical index page.
Ok, sorry I didn't notice Makruk. Obviously, as one of the most popular CVs in the world, that belongs here as well. It has now been added. I've also added Rococo to the Popular category. This game has established its popularity here for well over a decade, and it was the most popular game on the Our Favorites list that wasn't recognized. I remember reading that Pritchard was planning on including Rococo in the sequal to Encyclopedia of Chess Variants and was working with the editors on this (printing functionality added to Game Courier to make diagrams for the book maybe? It was something like that.)
I've removed the 'recognized' database flag from Chaturanga so it won't be highlighted as recognized in the lists any more. Thanks Kevin for pointing that out.
I'm not inclined to add anything else right now, although Eurasian and and possibly some of the other suggestions might well belong here. We're currently at 45 games and I could see the list going up to 50 (a nice round number), but these are the first additions in twelve years and we've just added four, so no need to rush it. I think we have corrected for the glaring omissions. I am going to work on adding the Recognized logo to the tops of the approprate game pages and probably modifying the text on this page somewhat to reflect how it differs from the other popular game lists.
I think for future additions, while popularity on this site is great, evidence of significant popularity in the world at large is more important. The Our Favorites and Game Courier Top 50 lists already provide insite into what is popular here. Another thing I'm going to do is flag some of the most popular games from these two lists in the database as 'primary' so that they also appear in the short list at the top of each alphabetical index page.