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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]
Jörg Knappen wrote on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 07:54 AM UTC:
Currently, there are no pieces in Chess with different armies that can create such kind of situation. When someone designs an army with such kind of piece (and a very strange piece it must be, your anti-cannon is not sufficient, because the King is in check before castling and rule 0 forbids castling out check. Thus, an anti-cannon on Dabbaba lines is required. A Dabbabarider is also insufficient, because the King moves exactly 2 spaces in castling) the designer has to add a special rule to cope with the situation.