Bots matchups for dead variants (suggestion)
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I know this would take some engineering effort, particularly for variants with unusual pieces like seirawan chess, but I think it'd be worth it.
Most chess variants suffer from lack of critical mass, a problem in many competitive online games. That is, people may want to play them, but not necessarily want to wait 10 minutes to get a match. This is exceptionally true if you want to play most variants outside of blitz.
Most of the time this is alleviated with bot matchups: If you don't get a match within X time, you just get a bot at around your rating.