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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]
Mike Nelson wrote on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 08:33 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★CWDA is IMHO the best variant on these pages and that's saying a lot. I particularly like the fact that the concept can be adapted to most variants.
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Here is an experimental CWDA army based on <a href='http://www.chessvariants.com/diffmove.dir/separate-realms.html'>Separate Realms Chess</a>:
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On the Rook's squares: the Separate Realms Queen (mAADDcQ)<br>
On the Knight's squares: the Separate Relms Rook (mDDcR)<br>
On the Bishop's squares: the Separte Realms Bishop (mAAcB)<br>
One the Queen's square: the FIDE Queen (or any queen-value piece you prefer).
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Calculation and playtesting suggest that the Separate Realms pieces are worth about 2/3 of their FIDE counterparts, so this should be in the ballpark of CWDA armies, with an unusual material balance (strong Rooks and weak Bishops).