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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 Wed, Dec 31, 2014 04:24 PM UTC:
Sure on all counts.  I had to think for a moment whether Dragon can reach all squares.  Though required 5-stepping, yes it can even on small 8x8. Not all middle-distance leapers, by contrast, reach every square such as Rector(4,5) unable to reach central four.  It shows multi-path flexibility.
(http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/scorpionanddragon.html)

Well there can be alternative subvariants (mentioning it once and for the last time thank Muller for useful "subvariant" term) replacing King-accompanying Rook, as many subvariants as we want.  The idea of Rook here would be comparable to Betza's Colourbound Clobberers having Carrera-Capablanca Centaur, though that Bishop-Knight is the one exception not being colourbound.