Kevin Pacey wrote on Sun, Nov 12, 2017 02:31 AM UTC:
Regarding my Frog Chess variant idea, with the latest setup (H.G.'s), I had a thought on how to salvage the French Defence analogue, at least in the case of the Advance variation analogue. After 1.Pf2-f4 Pf7-f6 2.Pe2-e4 Pe7-e5 3.Pf4-f5, Black can try 3...Fg8-f7, 'threatening' the disruptive check on f4, defending the pawn on i7 one more time, and introducing the idea of moving the other frog to g8 to reinforce the squares g5 & h7 once again, besides the frog (ferz-threeleaper compound) just moved (plus move a step closer to permitting queenside castling if desired, though this may be hard due to a White N maybe going to d5). White can play his d-pawn up a square, but it seems it won't be simple to soon force an advantageous pawn breakthrough on g5, or draw significant concession(s) from Black to stop it - Black might advance his own pawn to g5 if need be. I'm beginning to like H.G.'s setup more, but I'm still not sure if my original one is worse. In the case of that one, I'm thinking that in the case of a French Advance analogue, perhaps 3...Pg7-g5 might be the only move that is at all palatable for Black. Otherwise, the possibility of Qe1-i5[+] at times seems disconcerting, for example.
Regarding my Frog Chess variant idea, with the latest setup (H.G.'s), I had a thought on how to salvage the French Defence analogue, at least in the case of the Advance variation analogue. After 1.Pf2-f4 Pf7-f6 2.Pe2-e4 Pe7-e5 3.Pf4-f5, Black can try 3...Fg8-f7, 'threatening' the disruptive check on f4, defending the pawn on i7 one more time, and introducing the idea of moving the other frog to g8 to reinforce the squares g5 & h7 once again, besides the frog (ferz-threeleaper compound) just moved (plus move a step closer to permitting queenside castling if desired, though this may be hard due to a White N maybe going to d5). White can play his d-pawn up a square, but it seems it won't be simple to soon force an advantageous pawn breakthrough on g5, or draw significant concession(s) from Black to stop it - Black might advance his own pawn to g5 if need be. I'm beginning to like H.G.'s setup more, but I'm still not sure if my original one is worse. In the case of that one, I'm thinking that in the case of a French Advance analogue, perhaps 3...Pg7-g5 might be the only move that is at all palatable for Black. Otherwise, the possibility of Qe1-i5[+] at times seems disconcerting, for example.
H.G's setup:
My original setup:
Frog