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14 years ago Betza put in 4 regular and 4 Berolina Pawns per side, not as Different Armies. 50 or 75 CVs are different armies, the >1% expected, and it is a category in the Main Index. That is counting 33-year-old Chess Different Armies itself by Betza and various others he approves as One CV only. There has been less study of them than most categories whether any could be as good as classical CDA. Fantasy Grand is the lone example placed already at Next Chess, which is to be completed by 2029. //// At Brainking there are 37 Chesses to choose in almost the same selection for a decade. Only one, Maharajah, is different armies. White Maharajah versus Black f.i.d.e. is poor-choice cv. The results there at the moment over more than a decade: White 1710 wins, Black 3114 wins, Draw 379 for 33%-60%-7%. That is far the worst imbalance of all the 37. On the average once a couple years they drop one CV or add another. There are about 200-250 users logged on any given time, but included are non-chess games. Counting the two regional chesses, shogi and xiangqi, there CVs used to be 60% of the play. Now it may be the reverse where the 37 chesses are 40% and the non-chess games 60% approximately; but after the Maharajah data, those are just first estimates based on intermittent information in such as Brainking's ''waiting games'' index (it could be more cv invitations go faster).