H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, May 2, 2023 07:23 AM UTC:
There seems to be some inconsistency, or at least something that is very confusing. When I go to a page of one of the variants mentioned here as a link, this displays a black 'attention box' at the top mentioning it is on our list of 'featured games'. When I click the link that box refers to, I get to a page which appears to be an index page with an alphabetical list of (presumably) 'featured games'. Most of the variants mentioned in that list are also labeled there as 'recognized'.
The point is that there seems to be no relation to that page, and the one we comment on here. Spartan Chess is mentioned as a 'featured game', but it is not mentioned here as being a featured variant. Chu Shogi is labeled 'recognized', but it is not mentioned here as ever having been recognized. (What makes this extra strange is that we used to have no article on Chu Shogi here, but just an external link, until I created one (in 2015), and I think I did that long after the 'recognized' program had been terminated.)
Is the 'featured chess variants' page incomplete, and are their time periods in which variants were chosen to be labeled as 'recognized' or 'featured game' that are not mentioned here at all? Or is 'featured chess variant' something different from 'featured game'?
BTW, I think that, even when an organized effort to choose a 'recognized' variant of the month is no longer done, the consistency of this site requires us to label obviously important (historically, or because of a large player base) chess variants as 'recognized'.
There seems to be some inconsistency, or at least something that is very confusing. When I go to a page of one of the variants mentioned here as a link, this displays a black 'attention box' at the top mentioning it is on our list of 'featured games'. When I click the link that box refers to, I get to a page which appears to be an index page with an alphabetical list of (presumably) 'featured games'. Most of the variants mentioned in that list are also labeled there as 'recognized'.
The point is that there seems to be no relation to that page, and the one we comment on here. Spartan Chess is mentioned as a 'featured game', but it is not mentioned here as being a featured variant. Chu Shogi is labeled 'recognized', but it is not mentioned here as ever having been recognized. (What makes this extra strange is that we used to have no article on Chu Shogi here, but just an external link, until I created one (in 2015), and I think I did that long after the 'recognized' program had been terminated.)
Is the 'featured chess variants' page incomplete, and are their time periods in which variants were chosen to be labeled as 'recognized' or 'featured game' that are not mentioned here at all? Or is 'featured chess variant' something different from 'featured game'?
BTW, I think that, even when an organized effort to choose a 'recognized' variant of the month is no longer done, the consistency of this site requires us to label obviously important (historically, or because of a large player base) chess variants as 'recognized'.