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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]
Samson Marriner wrote on Fri, Sep 5, 2014 08:26 AM UTC:
Of the experimental armies of CwDA, most work well but the Cylindrical Cinders doesn't. It can win the exchange Rook-type pieces on turn 1: if Fabulous FIDEs, Nutty Knights, or Fearful Fairies it can win Rooks without exchanging them (unless i'm missing something). Besides, they can't develop to protect pawns.

My suggestion is that they switch places with the Bishops, since as BDs show corner squares work well with Bishop-ish pieces, and all Bishops (so far, including Bakery Bombers regardless of the Queen) are protected, and because like Knights they usually develop to protect the opposite pawns.