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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]
Michael Nelson wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 01:34 AM EDT:
Yes. The name Half-Duck comes from Ralph's 'funny notation' for the piece: HFD. The H and D components are leapers like the Knight--they can leap over pieces of either side or empty sqaures and any combination of these. All of this is 100% clear form Ralph's original CWDA pages.