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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, May 2 07:13 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 05:15 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.

The process has to start somewhere, and this is fairly simple and low bar.

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.

The point is to find eligible games to nominate, and between the three I mentioned, there are already many eligible games. But if you want to look further afield for games supported by Stockfish or other programs, that is fine.

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.

This is cart before the horse wrong. Games should be made eligible for being featured before being chosen to be featured, not the other way around. My point was that if you wanted a game that is currently ineligible to be featured, and one thing holding it back was the lack of a strong computer opponent, you could make it eligible (or at least closer to eligible) by adding support for it in FairyMax, and others could do the same by writing a ZRF for it.