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H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, May 2 05:15 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 03:11 PM:

Well, then apparently this system of nominating and seconding is not a good idea, as it fails to come up with presentations that are of suitable quality and popularity to be featured.

Also note that pychess.org is heavily based on Fairy-Stockfish, so that any variant playable there must also be available as (very) strong computer opponent. So just looking at the three programs you mention might reject lots of candidates for no good reason.

Even if I could configure Fairy-Max to provide a strong AI where one is lacking, this would only be feaible if I know long enough in advance that the variant in question will get featured. So in this respect the procedure is also flawed.