Kevin Pacey wrote on Thu, Nov 9, 2017 04:40 AM UTC:
Here's a diagram of a chess variant idea's setup for my study at leisure. The frog figurines represent ferz-threeleaper compound pieces, also known as frogs (wikipedia). Otherwise the game's rules would be as in Capablanca Chess. The variant might be called Frog Chess (I thought about calling it Frog Prince Chess, and letting a frog have the option to change to a prince [guard] piece type upon attacking or capturing an enemy queen [possibly replacing that piece type in the setup by a princess {archbishop} piece type] but that seemed a little light-hearted even for fairy chess, and probably politically incorrect in this day and age). I reckon that the value of a frog here is very close to that of a knight:
Here's a diagram of a chess variant idea's setup for my study at leisure. The frog figurines represent ferz-threeleaper compound pieces, also known as frogs (wikipedia). Otherwise the game's rules would be as in Capablanca Chess. The variant might be called Frog Chess (I thought about calling it Frog Prince Chess, and letting a frog have the option to change to a prince [guard] piece type upon attacking or capturing an enemy queen [possibly replacing that piece type in the setup by a princess {archbishop} piece type] but that seemed a little light-hearted even for fairy chess, and probably politically incorrect in this day and age). I reckon that the value of a frog here is very close to that of a knight: