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Suggestion, that may be difficult to execute, but still, i'll leave it.
"Unusual shape" category should be devided into two subcategories: variants with none-rectangular cells (triangular, pentagonal, etc.) and variants with unusual connection and/or arrangement of rectangular cells (like cylindrical; well, maybe, not only rectangular - e. g. cylinrical hexagonal chess will belong to both categories).
One aspect - for new people at chess variants, who are only getting familiarized with CVs, these categories are probably more comfortable to be in one category, but for these, who already got plunged into world of CVs, this division will be helpfull for searching chess variants.

I think there needs to be a chess variant design contest. Maybe a 14-piece, 20-square contest for 2014?  Perhaps something else clever.

Problems, puzzles, positions and pieces link from Index page of CVP:

https://www.chessvariants.com/index/mainquery.php?type=Any&category=Singleplayer&orderby=LinkText&displayauthor=1&displayinventor=1&usethisheading=Problems+Puzzles+and+Solitaire+Games

This link got me thinking about two things: first, there may be many things listed in the Main CVP Alphabetical Index that are not found in this link that apparently should be; I'll give links to two such items here (the first is about Kriegspiel):

https://www.chessvariants.com/link/shChDetectiveBk

https://www.chessvariants.com/link/chess-variants-training

The second thing I thought about was the wild idea that could it be possible that someday there might be an attempt to give universal or near-universal strategic guidelines for chess variants of all sorts (CVP's attempt to classify CVs may help if classes of variants need to be treated seperately as far as strategy goes [that is, if CVs of the same class can all be handled at least to some extent with the same strategic ideas])? Note that puzzle or endgame positions being shown might not nearly suffice for imparting mastery of a given CV.

One thing I'm not sure of is why the FIDE organization (for chess) is apparently (still) not given as a link on the FIDE Chess page (CVP website page, that is).

The best justification for the omission I'd think would be that most people learn to play organized chess through their national chess federation first, and somewhere along the way they may get a FIDE rating. Therefore, why give any link for a chess organization, the logic may continue (unlike for Shogi, which is regional to Japan mainly).

Some years ago though, FIDE began to keep ratings for people rated as low as 1000 FIDE. That's about the level of a bright beginner, if it's about the same as for 1000 rating strength of a typical national chess federation beginner player like in Canada, for example. Thus FIDE is no longer about just keeping records for highly rated chess players.

The shown since Last Comment or Rating is not updating

Ok, I guess it is more complicated than that since that updated. Perhaps it does not update when a post is a reply to another post ...

Perhaps it does not update when a post is a reply to another post

It looks like that was the problem. A reply copies the row of the comment being replied to, and it wasn't unsetting $row["CommentDate"]. I just changed it to do that, and I will check whether this reply shows the correct CommentDate after posting it.

Update: It worked. This reply does not have the same date as the comment replied to.

Some links are broken, I tried "Other variants" and "Modest variants" under "Chess variants with usual equipment: Those variants that can be played with (mainly) a usual 8 by 8 board, and usual pieces." and both give a database error.

Example:

INVALID INPUT REJECTED. The generation of SQL has stopped without finishing, and the database has not been queried.

Invalid value for category: Usual-Modest.

Why did I try it at all? ... It has something to do with AAUUGHH! Chess and the recent comment on that.