Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Feb 21, 2022 09:45 PM UTC:
An experiment might be to switch all the Kts with the Champions AND switch all the Wizards with the Archbishops, in the setup - play testing could proceed from there, if anyone thinks this may be a good idea to try.
The reasoning is that not only may the Archbishops get into play easier sooner, but the development of the Kts and Wizards will not take away nice squares from each other (nor the Champions from the Wizards). A drawback is that the Kts are farther from the centre, but in Fergus' setup that tries to please Kt fans it's the Champions that have to suffer that instead (and squares they want to develop to are ones both the Wizards AND Kts may want to, too). However, another drawback would be Wizrds have less nice squares to develop to. [edit: yet another drawback would be that a Wizard could no longer develop to attack an enemy centre pawn that was moved by a triple step]
An experiment might be to switch all the Kts with the Champions AND switch all the Wizards with the Archbishops, in the setup - play testing could proceed from there, if anyone thinks this may be a good idea to try.
The reasoning is that not only may the Archbishops get into play easier sooner, but the development of the Kts and Wizards will not take away nice squares from each other (nor the Champions from the Wizards). A drawback is that the Kts are farther from the centre, but in Fergus' setup that tries to please Kt fans it's the Champions that have to suffer that instead (and squares they want to develop to are ones both the Wizards AND Kts may want to, too). However, another drawback would be Wizrds have less nice squares to develop to. [edit: yet another drawback would be that a Wizard could no longer develop to attack an enemy centre pawn that was moved by a triple step]