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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 Sat, Sep 24, 2011 04:12 PM UTC:
Interesting point. Barrier Pawn, Courier Man, Immortal Mann, and Mamra all move the same let's say non-capturing. That is why the, ''weigh in Betza willing'' sort of request to the man rumoured to read here. Gilman's is correct also for Hatch's Fantasy Grand though not all different-armies Chesses. It is not as if Chess Variant Page designers are known to be over-restrictive as to genre. Thus to put the pair, pointwise equivalent to 31.0 +/- 0.5 is taking a little license to almost forty-year-old Chess Unequal Armies, as it was called the first decades. As Betza himself did, the Immortal AntiClericals are ''experimental'' and the values are projected to be 0.5 and 5.5. So that is why punctiliously chosen are these two, B.P. and I.M., evenly matching Fabulous F.i.d.e.s and having passive movement anyway fully in accord with their one exact p-t class. Those different values range from about the lowest-possible for the piece-type to above average, but Mamra would be higher still, 8 out of 10 in that direct manner of grouping piece-type by uncomplicated movement without special-case capture/castling/captured. z z