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Where should the big hitters coming up go? NextChess8 drew the list, 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=25116, started in 2008 to 24 CVs from Bifurcators to
Seirawan. Mentioned is some aspect of each of the twenty-four in following.  Bifurcators appear on boards sized 68 and 80. Great
Shatranj(#2) re-arranges and optimizes Kozune pieces, updating and expanding original Chess Shatranj, years 600 to 1500, as though the Queen were dead. Mastodon(#3) inserts logical short-range 100-year-old Paulovits piece without unnecessary complications.  Three Player(#4) dynamics cannot simplify to two- the way four-ways tend to do. Unicorn(#5) and Schoolbook(#9) represent differently the best of the 400-year-old Carreras, that include symmetrical Modern(#19). Big Board using regular equipment wrecks openings by the placements. Sissa(#7) is very original piece-type, and Eurasian(#8) necessary implementation of Dawson's in perfect correspondence. Fischer Random(#10) is the easiest way out and most played. Bilateral adds solid accidental Murray Lion and Cannon as possibilities. Centennial(#12), losing favor after 15 years, does not seem anymore to solve Pawn dis-harmony 10-deep. Surprise Kings Court(#13) is the better of Black Ghost(#17) and Templar(#21) in adding one or two new unusual piece-types.  Like Great Shatranj, Wildebeest(#14) reconnects with antiquity in compounding pieces; and Courier de la Dama is a sort of reversal of that, putting the Queen into mediaeval Courier. Transactional(#15) stands in for Kriegspiel, as Fantasy Grand(#16) does for Chess Different Armies.  Melee(#20) represents itself as Track I replacement, but with Fantasy Grand and Eight-Stone has Track II utility as well. Eight-Stone(#18) and Switching and Seirawan(#24) could represent other modest mutators than their specific one too, such as the many CVs having change in castling, for their full game-changing ramification. That's 24 so far.