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Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Tue, Jan 25, 2011 04:14 PM UTC:
These Cyclic Armies definitely deserve articles or cvs. Questions like: (1) How about four in sequence? (2) Hexagonal ones. Experimenting there are found 4 Dabbabah bindings, that Gilman has not touched on yet; but I did not finish a tripartite  hexagonal army with any confidence. (3) Try one piece only and King back on squares.  This one is only preliminary for 8x8:    [Pasha/Mastodon + King] >  [(Dabbabante+Wazir)+King] > [(Quadra-leaper 1,5 1,6 2,5 2,6) + King] > [Mastodon+King] ad infinitum. ////   That (15/16/25/26) is okay to call (Ibis-Flamingo-(Satyr or Korsar)-26).