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Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Wed, Sep 19, 2012 12:21 PM UTC:
Hey Carlos, the diagram doesn't look distorted to me.  Well, i'm not sure about your setup, tell me what you think.  It's all the Trippers on the back rank.

After the Tripper, say on d1, moves to g4, it cannot move forward because the black Tripper on g10 can capture it. And also, the black Tripper on g10 now cannot move.  Same with the Tripper on g1, after it moves, it also cannot move forward, because of the black Tripper on d10, which now cannot move too.

Surely this cannot be good?  The way i have it set up, most pieces cannot come in contact with each other, allowing them to start their journey through promotion.  And the ones that can move and attack (only the Fourleapers), the opposing side has this attack defended.

I note also, where i had 3 Threeleapers and 2 Fourleapers in opening setup, you have 4 Threeleapes and 1 Fourleaper. Is this intended? It is really minor thing though, because the Commuters do promote to Fourleapers.

Anyway, let me know what you think, you have made me look at this more now, and i see something about the opening setup that may need .. fine tunning, curse you, hehe.  It is very difficult to get these pieces in perfect opening setup, because of their awkward moves, so painful, but it is worth it, these pieces are rarely seen and hardly a game plays with them having a major role. If you are happy with a setup, i can always make a 2nd 'Carlos Cetina Variant' if you wish.

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