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Okay, then, let's get on with the replacement. [And Mark, with my shatranj
variants, I'm obviously trying to re-write history to prevent FIDE from
ever evolving... ;-) ]

Where have we gotten to? The general thrust of the recent past [at least]
has been to modify a bit the bishop and rook by giving them a knight's,
lame knight's, or guard's move in addition to their slide - the
upgunning principle. For simplicity, I'd like to call the 3 similar
changes above the 'B-R Stronger' modification, whether it plays out on
an 8x8, 8x10, or 10x10. I think we can safely say that the B-R Stronger
mod, in whatever particular form, is the strongest candidate for 'The
Next Change', if only by virtue of it showing up over and over again to
the exclusion of almost everything else.

I admit to finding this rather uninteresting; for one thing, it's already
been done repeatedly, and I suspect both Gary and George's versions are
better than the standard one of Chancellor and Archbishop because they
don't push the mod to its practical limit like the standard. 

What else is there?