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George Duke wrote on Thu, Jan 8, 2015 04:41 PM UTC:
When placing Fantasy Grand of 100 squares, there is this summary of differing forces in CVs that fits in now: 

http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=24682.

Another Chess Different Armies, Fantasy Grand is ranked 18 now at Next Chess of 26 placed.  Next Chess as my personal take admittedly has bias to larger boards.  Yet deliberately excluded for consideration all along has been Betza's CDA.  That is because it is too good for "next chess" since it is already well-established among CVers as the best bet to save the small board.  So I am all in favor of Jeremy's all of a sudden overstessing CDA. Other GC highly played games are centuries old: Shogi, Xiangqi, OrthoChess.  Forty-year-old CDA needs some company and at top of Next Chess so far are Bifurcators playable on 64 and Great Shatranj suitable for the best board of all Capablanca-chosen 8x10.

The above linked thread asks, why not have differing yet equally-advantaged rules one side to the other, besides or rather than pieces?  One follow-up genre should certainly create different armies for that 8x10 board intermediate between CDA and Fantasy Grand. All it takes to start is adding one paired piece to pre-existing CDA forces.

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