Unclear Description: Variant Chess

I see too much potential for overlap with Smart People Play Chess with Intellectual Board Game. If I only knew about the latter, I'd include it on works like X-Men and Star Trek, though Smart People Play Chess is in full force. I guess Intellectual Board Game would be the game itself: 3D chess, Go, Stones, Thus, etc, but it would automatically include works with Smart People Play Chess.

Okay, we've established there's too many tropes and ideas being covered in this article.

Summary Time! (Sorta post order, let me know if I missed anything)

Tropes/Ideas present in current article;

• A board game that exists solely to flavor the setting and provide verisimilitude. What Un Coffee is to regular coffee. This is what Variant Chess began as. Proposed names include: Chess Analogue, Chess Equivalent, Board Game Of The Future, Un Chess, Fictional World Building Game, Fictional World Building Board Game. Does this include just board games or all fictional sports?
  • Games that look like chess. Currently littering the examples page.
    • Sub-category: games which look like chess but don't have any clear rules
    • Sub-category: games which are just chess but with different pieces
  • Games which play like chess. Currently littering the examples page.
    • Sub-category: variants of chess itself (like 4-player or monochrome chess)
    • Sub-category: other games with similar board layout/tactics, but no direct relation to chess.
• Intellectual Board Game: Already covered by Smart People Play Chess, which I must point out applies to more than just chess.

From post content alone it's clear that only the first bullet point is actually a trope. A lot of the sup-types are covered by tropes we already have. I'm going to agree with Lomerell and say the "rules variants" are People Sit On Chairs.

As I see it we need a new name (possibly excluding "chess" to avoid more confusion) and a more focused description, and we need to decide if the trope should be broadened to all sports and games or remain just board games. Otherwise I don't see the point of all these other suggestions, they have other places they can be put or aren't tropeworthy.

If we can agree on that I'll start clipping examples. I'll need someone else to redo the description, since I wrote the current one and this is where the entire problem is.

If we can't agree on that let me know what I missed.

edited 12th Dec '12 4:22:47 AM by CleverPun

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