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Besides entertainment in 150 invented CVs, Betza's two main goals are attested to in comment of this very same 10-year-old article: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=2466.  One, Chess Different Armies eventually overtaking standard f.i.d.e. Mad Queen 64 squares.  Two, his Notation catching on and being extended.  Joe Joyce did more than anyone else towards that, until now that in just a week H.G. Muller has written more than Ralph himself ever did on the system. 

Yet with no article by Muller, doesn't 'Man & Beast 01 to 21' by Charles Gilman already cover much of the same ground being extended in Betzan, 'Man & Beasts' doing so other than notationally? For example, Betza/Muller 'm' to indicate move and capture divergence corresponds to 'Man & Beasts 02: Shield Bearers', which English-names up to 100 divergent piece-types.
Betza develops mathematical system of piece-types to be extendable, and Muller then creates modifications having programmer-conscious disambiguation. [Notation may as well represent 
entire CVs too not pieces alone with no need of ordinary wording for part or for whole.]

'Man & Beasts' anoint plain English names systematically on logical pieces up to about 32x32 square. Not only that, there are other geometries in 'Man & Beasts': hexagonal, tetrahedral, and the several three-dimensional ones. So far Betza/Muller Notation does not extend to other than square-based movement and rules and has a ways to broaden and catch up.  Since there is much coverage overlap, maybe already Betza-suggested standards committee could come into play. 

Or alternately it could be said the Betza/Muller notational approach should merge with the Gilman nomenclative approach for better unified system.