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Ben Reiniger wrote on Wed, Dec 13, 2023 10:55 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 09:55 PM:

Fergus, such a change should really be done after some time to discuss all the ramifications, and making all the code changes at once.

Diff-setup, diff-move, diff-capture all only really make sense in the context of usual-ish equipment, I think, along the lines of what you mentioned for setup.

I think Usual-Other should just become Usual; it's not necessarily "other" in the (vague) way the Other category is, it's just playable with the usual equipment without having fallen into one or more of the other Usual* categories.

Modest should be its own category. They will be a subset of Usual, at least until someone gives a convincing argument about a variant that should violate that pattern. I don't think it should be removed: it has useful signal, even if fuzzy, and many of the other categories are similarly fuzzy anyway (such is just the nature of categorizing [chess variants]).


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