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The Pizza Kings. An experimental army for Chess with Different Armies, with lots of calories.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Sat, May 3, 2008 05:15 PM UTC:
John Lawson in 2001 fashioned a Betza Chess-Different-Armies team with ''Meatball,'' made of all the Betza atoms. N+D+W+A+F. That would be quintuple compound, too many for our humble search of mere triplets. In practice, Lawson says weakening this too-powerful piece was necessary. Hence Narrow Knight move only came about, but full WDFA, or as Jeremy Good points out ''Jumping General/Mastodon + Forward Knight.''(sic, it should be Narrow)