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H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, May 31, 2023 08:04 AM UTC:

I made an overview of the nominated variants, indicating which support they have on CVP. The fav. column indicates the number of people that have favorited it (discounting the inventor). The feat. column indicates whether the variant was already featured before (which I think should disqualify it).

An 'ic' in the column for Interactive Diagram means a Diagram exists in the comments to the article, which could easily be moved into the latter.

name 2nd art. ID GC Jocly Java ZoG fav. feat.
Tiger Hunt   X       X   1  
s.o. Almost C   X       X X 1  
Duck C X X X         3  
Expanded C X X X X       7  
Sac C X X   X       4  
Opulent C X X ic X     X 8 X
Elven C   X X X X     3  
Gross C X X ic X     X 9 X
Hectochess X X X X       3  
Enhanced Courier C X X X X       2  
Superschaak X                
Pako Shako   X X         4  
Musketeer C   X ic X       6  
Tenjiku Shogi   X ic X X     7  
Chu Shogi   X X X X   X 18 X
Spartan C   X ic X X     11 X
Metamachy   X X X X     10  
                   
                   

Superschaak / Superchess and Monarch only exists here as a book review. It appears that Tiger Hunt is also invented by David himself, so that the nomination probably should not count.

Since it is 'late in the day', I think our only options for June are pages that do not require any work. A negative point for Metamachy is that we already featured a very similar game from the same inventor last month. Of the remaining variants Expanded Chess seems to have the best support on CVP and largest popularity here. It also has an excellent rule-description page. Due to the participation of two bent sliders it is sufficiently different in character from the recently featured variants. Only minus is that there is no Jocly implementation for it. But very few variants have one.