I have sad news to report : David Pritchard, for whose second edition of the Encyclopedia of Chess Variants I collected games here, has died accidentally on December 11. A big part of the book was already written, but I have of course no idea whether someone will finish the huge work that he was doing. I will forward here the information I might get about that.

Among the great games collected here, a few of them may still be published in another way, either in the magazine "Variant Chess", either on my website. Again, if it happens I will inform the players who provided me with the games.

Thank you one more time to all contributors.

Thank you, I saved and looked at all the games, it looks like a very interesting material for the ECV. I will pass all of them to David Pritchard.

Thank you all for those games. For the moment I had time to look to Walter's and ChessCarpenter's games only, and they certainly are entertaining (but I must confess that in Walter's game I have been a bit puzzled by redsales' declined bishop sacrifice :-) )

ChessCarpenter: Thank you for the links, I will give them to David, and you are right that Ed Trice is a very good candidate to show nice games of his, I should PM him.
BTW, in case anybody was unsure about it, Gothic Chess is eligible for appearance in the ECV although it is patented.

Hi variants players,

I am writing this for David Pritchard, who is close to finishing the second edition of his famous book "The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants". He is always looking for good sample games, and when I offered him to make this call on Brainking, he found it was an excellent idea. There are many variants played here and the turn-based type of play makes for better games than blitz.

The present message is a call for "best games" by the top BK players - I have no precise idea about what "top" means, but probably it should be thought as something like having been in the top 5 BKR in the variant played. Best games can be won, but also drawn or lost games. If you are interested that one of your games shows in the Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, just submit to me your one or two best games in each variant. All I need is the game id (or the link to the game, which looks like http://brainking.com/en/ArchivedGame?g=123456), given either in a PM to me or on that board.

The time delay for this is about one month. After that, David (and me!) will still be interested in seeing your best games, but he will not be able to include them in the book any more.

Thank you by advance for your inputs !