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Hey, Christine! Sorry it took me so long to reply, got trampled by events
recently. Still, I'm remiss in not yet thanking all the people who
enjoyed the  article and especially all those who have actively
participated in one way or another. David Paulowich suggested Lemurian
Shatranj with rooks. Claudio Martins Jaguaribe roughed out a game called
Naval Base Chess at the Yahoo chessvariants group, which has been modified
but not yet completed. Mike Nelson has posted Insane Flip Relay Shatranj
here at CV and promises a preset. Greg Strong has posted Hubbub here,
along with a preset; Greg is currently harrassing me with a knight 10-12
moves into a game. Gary Gifford created 6 Fortresses Short Range, posted
the rules and a preset, and then [Amazingly! :D ] created 2 variants of
that game, with rules and presets, which use the same setup and pieces but
vary the original 6FSR board length  and are named Shoranji and Shoranji
Maximus. Gary and I are playing our second version now. 
To all these people, my apologies in being so slow to acknowledge your
several efforts, and for not yet having put in links to your game rules
and presets that are listed in the Update to the Games Released section in
the beginning of the TSRP article. I hope to fix that quite soon, but I
don't see how I'll manage a shortrange piecelopedia anytime soon. Its
size seems to have outrun my current typing abilities.
A number of people have recently posted games that fall into the
shortrange category, come close, or use some shortrange pieces in larger
variants, without making the fuss over it I have. Great! Some of those
games are really nice. But doing it this way, with a little hype and
soliciting of ideas, has been a lot of fun. Here, I'd like to thank
Christine for having the idea of a collaboration on shatranj-like games in
the first place. And, in spite of miscommunications 2-10 times a day, or
maybe helped along by them, it was a very rewarding experience for me, and
I hope for her. She certainly earned my thanks; I know she worked hard on
TSRP. We both hope others will continue to read, play, design and enjoy
the shortrange aspects of chess variants. We still actively solicit
people's comments and participation, and do respond to questions and
suggestions. Doug Chatham has asked about alternate forms of capture. I
expect to release a game soon that uses a few different forms of capture,
with a good-sized board and no piece moving over 3. This might be a good
secondary theme, short range with more than 1 form of capture. There's
plenty of room for more updates.