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I'll get on organizing a second tournament in a while. But first, I want
to update the Item Name fields of preset pages to match the names used for
games by Game Courier. As I did last time, I will do an approval poll
first, followed by a ranked poll. I suggest that we automatically place
the ten most popular games from the approval poll into the ranked poll, no
matter whether we played any in the last tournament, and then fill the
remaining spots only with games that were not played in the previous
tournament. We could cap it at about 20, including any games that tie for
20th place and were not played in the previous tournament. This method, or
one like it, would allow the tournament to retain some of the most popular
games without ruling them out for being played last time, and it would
help make the list of games for this tournament different from the list
used for the last tournament. And if there are any particular games you do
not want in two tournaments in a row, you could avoid voting for them.

An excellent tournament--well run and well played. Congratulation to
Antoine for his near perfecto: 10.5/11 is very impressive in any
tournament. Congratulations to Roberto for a very solid second with a
score that might well have won had Antoine been less dominating.

I loved playing this tournament in spite of finishing last (of those who
completed the tournament) and in spite of gaining only 1 point over the
board. I did at least chalk up a fairly impressive win at my own Pocket
Mutation Chess.

I hope that the preparation for Mutivariant 2005 will be underway
soon--definetly count me in.

Thanks to Fergus for all, this was a very nice Tournamant, although perhaps
it could be shorter in time, we can think on how we can make the rules for
the next Tournament in a way it lasts less time, say 4-6 months as much.
Thanks to Michael for his comment, but in reallity I don´t think I could
win, Antoine is very strong and he dominates many variants much more than
me, and, to be sincere, I have not expected being in second position, in
my opinion Fergus have had the merits for the second place, unfortunatelly
he commited a fatal blunder in Eurasian against me, if not, he could win
that game, his position was better than mine before that move, and in
other game, he was not clear on the rules in Anti-King Chess II, and it
was the main cause for being defeated, without deduct merits to Carlos
Carlos, he played well. Perhaps me, as a few other players, have had a
little more time to think on the moves many times, and it could help too.
But I have enjoyed this Tournament a lot, and the results does not matter
a lot to me, I have had a lot of fun with almost all of the games I have
played, and specially in three extremely exciting games: Grand Chess,
against Mc. Elmurry (I won after a complex battle, but all could happen),
AKII, against Fourriere (he won in a complex game full of sacrifices by
both bands, in which two different strategies were confronted), and
Maxima, against Gifford (draw, in an exciting and very well played game by
both bands, and I have to say that this was the first Maxima game that Gary
has played, and he did the things as a strong veteran, incredible good
game, perhaps the best Maxima game I have played). 
What about the rules for the next Tournament?. What games are we going to
consider in the first poll?. How can we do to attract many new players?.
Think on it...

thanks to fergus for a brilliant tournament.

congratulations to antoine, roberto and fergus.
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i too had a great time.  i certainly enjoyed some games more than others
and hope to play them many more times - in particular i enjoyed
familiarising myself (to varying degrees) with ultima, pocket mutation,
grand chess, eurasian chess and takeover chess.  games i have to say i
didn't enjoy were cavalier and hexagonal chess, although perhaps both
might seem better if i played them a few more times.

the only unfortunate thing was that a number of my games were decided one
way or the other by whopping blunders.  i guess that is bound to happen
with games we are fairly unfamiliar with.

Thanks to Fergus for a well thought-out Tournament, and for having devised
Game Courier.

Thanks to Michael and Carlos for their congratulations.

Actually, although I won three of them, my games of Pocket Mutation Chess
(my first choice) against Carlos, of Anti-King Chess (my second choice)
against Roberto, of Alice Chess (my third or fourth choice) against Fergus
and particularly of Chessgi against Michael Madsen were all far from easy,
and could each have ended into a defeat.

As for blunders, I doubt there will be many of them in next year's
Tournament, at least from the players who participated this year.

The link on this page to the GCT1 game logs appears to have an incorrect tournament filter, and produces an empty list of logs.

Here is a working link.