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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]

gnohmon wrote on Wed, Sep 4, 2002 02:51 AM UTC:

> A stunning confimation of Ralph's 'levelling effect'

What? You didn;t believe me?

I would guess that you are right in thinking that the rapid development
causes the army to get a great initial advantage which compensates for the
weakness of its individual pieces.

The Remarkable Rookies have perhaps the highest absolute value and the
slowest development (until you learn the trick of using the HFD to harass
the foe and give the WD and the R4 time to get into the game). For a
contrast in extremes, you shoul try the Rookies against your army!

Remember also that the results you get with a computer are not the same
results you would get if the game was played between two human chess
masters.