Actually I was thinking not of minor improvements, which I have carried out on many of my variants, but with completely new variants unrelated to the ones that they would be replacing, much in the way that my page of modest variants replaced Voyager. Sorry if I did not make this clear. The reasons are now included in the pages for the individual variants, and in those marked * below I had placed the theme too strongly ahead of creating a worthwhile and playanble game. In addition:
3 to the 5 was intended to showcase pieces now better showcased by a more recent variant.
3 player Dabbaba Qi and Hex Dabbaba Qi were steps along a path culminating in the much better Trebuqi.
Epping Forest Chess *, Ksmil Crater Chess *, and Neutral Subject Chess are memory-heavy.
Half Shoxiang had a poor response for the original variant and no counterbalancing response for the supposedly better one.
Maharajah's Well Chess * has a very unorthodox board.
Sultan's Elephant Chess * looks like a spoof and coined "Sultan's" piece before I devised a piece actually named the Sultan.
I have wondered about replacing Maharajah's Well Chess with a modest Maharajah v Sepoys variant in which a piece making a long-range move is "in a well" in the sense of creeping back one rank immediately after its move, but am unconvinced of the merits of such a game.
3 to the 5 was intended to showcase pieces now better showcased by a more recent variant.
3 player Dabbaba Qi and Hex Dabbaba Qi were steps along a path culminating in the much better Trebuqi.
Epping Forest Chess *, Ksmil Crater Chess *, and Neutral Subject Chess are memory-heavy.
Half Shoxiang had a poor response for the original variant and no counterbalancing response for the supposedly better one.
Maharajah's Well Chess * has a very unorthodox board.
Sultan's Elephant Chess * looks like a spoof and coined "Sultan's" piece before I devised a piece actually named the Sultan.
I have wondered about replacing Maharajah's Well Chess with a modest Maharajah v Sepoys variant in which a piece making a long-range move is "in a well" in the sense of creeping back one rank immediately after its move, but am unconvinced of the merits of such a game.