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When I ran the first tournament, I did the same thing I'm doing in this one. I placed some games into sets of similar games with the stipulation that only one game from each set would make it into the tournament. There were five sets in all, and one game from four of those sets each made it into the tournament. These were Anti-King Chess II, Take Over Chess in 64 Squares, Eurasian Chess, and Grand Chess. So it doesn't look like this practice is going to hurt the chances of getting one game from each set into the tournament. In fact, this practice is introduced to protect the games in each set from getting lower ratings because some people choose to penalize one and not the other to prevent a pair of similar games from getting into the tournament. For example, suppose that someone wants Mir Chess in the tournament, but he doesn't want both Mir Chess 32 and Mir Chess 36 in the tournament. So he gives a high ranking to Mir Chess 32 and a low ranking to Mir Chess 36. Someone else with the same wishes may give a high ranking to Mir Chess 36 and a low ranking to Mir Chess 32. As a result, both forms of Mir Chess are now rated lower than they would be if the voters knew they could give equally high ratings to both games without fear of putting both in the tournament by doing so. Thus, what I am doing prevents dilution of votes.