I agree with Fergus, but as a more general answer may I say that I believe this has value. It gives us another way to highlight games that the community feels has value, in temporary way (as opposed to making something Recognized, or whatever, that declares value in a more permenant way).
We all know the issue -- there are a million chess variants (figuratively, and maybe literally) and how do we -- the CVP community who know about these things -- call out those worthy of further attention?
The procedure we are following makes sense to me. Let us give it a try. It seems to be working. Eurasian Chess and Cylindrical Chess are both worthy of notice for many reasons. If the Featured Variants offers no value, it will go away. If it creates problems, it will be refined or it will go away. This forum is an evolving entity. We do not need to answer every question before anything is done.
I agree with Fergus, but as a more general answer may I say that I believe this has value. It gives us another way to highlight games that the community feels has value, in temporary way (as opposed to making something Recognized, or whatever, that declares value in a more permenant way).
We all know the issue -- there are a million chess variants (figuratively, and maybe literally) and how do we -- the CVP community who know about these things -- call out those worthy of further attention?
The procedure we are following makes sense to me. Let us give it a try. It seems to be working. Eurasian Chess and Cylindrical Chess are both worthy of notice for many reasons. If the Featured Variants offers no value, it will go away. If it creates problems, it will be refined or it will go away. This forum is an evolving entity. We do not need to answer every question before anything is done.