Phase 3 of Rethinking Wargames

Plans are being devised for 2004 to infiltrate the international chess playing community on and offline with the rules of the new game. The idea is to spread new peace-promoting, non-heirarchical models of organisation and success embedded in the new game by changing the way clever chess players' synapses fire. Current thoughts and suggestions include:-

• building an open online community, where players of the new game can compete in a programme of international online tournaments, compare strategies, propose and implement improvements to the game.
• work with Hostel and the San Francisco Homeless Coalition to establish a tournament with the street people of the city who already have a strong tradition of playing chess in the open.
• work with brooklyn-based artist, Sharilyn Neidhardt to stage a human chess game in a city of our choice. The first game of this form (based on conventional chess) took place in may on the lower east side of Manhattan.
• running art workshops about cooperation with school chess clubs both on and offline.
• enlist the support for the project of a couple of International Grand Masters- utilising the role of reputation in the conventional chess community.
• get the new game reviewed on the respected variant chess platforms.

You never know we may have world peace by this time next year!

as always, mail me with other suggestions.