H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 08:40 PM UTC:
The way I read it, Minister and High Priestess are regulare FDW and FAN, which can jump to all their distant destinations...
I do like Great Shatranj for the consistent application of a single idea, mnamely to replace all distant slider moves by a single 2-jump. But I don't think it stands any chance of replacing the Mad Queen game. Slider moves are simply too interesting to discard completely.
I might include Great Shatranj and its pieces as standard variant in the Variant Server.