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Score: (1) Bifurcators > (2) Great Shatranj > Mastodon > Three Player > (5) Unicorn Great > Big Board > Sissa > Eurasian > Schoolbook > (10) Fischer Random > Bilateral > Centennial > Kings Court > Wildebeest > (15) Fantasy Grand > Black Ghost > Eight-Stone > Modern > Melee > (20) Templar > Courier de la Dama > Switching > (23) Seirawan. Fischer Random has erudite analysis of benefit and improvement over regular-six f.i.d.e 64 squares all over the place: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/fischerandom. Yet Fischer Random to CVers is more or less a natural Mutator, like Switching (#22), applicable to 99% of CVs. Schoolbook was already described to indicate all the Carrera-Capablanca arrays, like Capablanca Random Chess would. Place Fischer Random right below Schoolbook, because the two different mixes have the equivalence of practically being co-standard Chesses for 500 and 400 years respectively. Carrera's has just continually been the much lesser known. More can be wrung and wrenched very constructively out of either and both, and they serve as great points of entry to more venturesome, deeper constructions. The Schoolbook crowd gets the edge for its relative disregard until the last two decades. Understand that, by future play and other opinions, the slottings-in of individual Next Chesses can shift up or down. Now put at number 10, Fischer Random, the latest embodiment of random starting positions from at least Alexandre's inspiration in the 1820s, is safely to stay approved, insofar as the higher on the list, the more dislodge-able. Over 20 CVs already could occupy several decades, but that would not solve the problem of so much outstanding material left unscrutinized for what is called alternately ''Track One.'' Next up is ten-year-old Transactional Chess.