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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]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Sep 21, 2018 04:40 PM UTC:

I am not sure what you mean by that.

It stands to reason that the Charging Knight has mating potential on 8x8: the Gold General already has that, and the Charging Knight has 4 Knight moves instead of the single Wazir step of the Gold. (After you flip it, which should not matter in an otherwise 8-fold -symmetric context.) So it is bound to be a much stronger piece. I see that in Fairy-Max' implementation of CWdA I valued it as 400 cP (where R=500 and N=325).