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Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Jeremy Lennert wrote on Tue, Mar 6, 2012 10:28 PM UTC:

I would be wary of declaring an opening array safe on the basis of the way it interacts with a specific opposing array.  The FIDE army happens to have a piece on b/g that starts defended, is worth about the same as a Frog, and can flee without moving a pawn first.

Suppose we shuffled the pieces on both sides with some algorithm similar to FRC.  Would that be likely to produce a problematic case like your b/g test, or a calm one like your a/h test?

Put another way, are the problems you had with the Frogs on b/g a special case that is unlikely to recur with different armies, or is every future CwDA army going to need to carefully check to make sure the Fairies can't easily win a piece against them in the opening?