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Jeremy Good wrote on Thu, Sep 24, 2009 06:03 PM UTC:
As I noted in my earlier comment / query, the logs link doesn't list but a fraction of those that have actually been played on this site. So there is something wrong with that listing. Vitya Makov alone has completed more than twice as many (completed) games of CDA than are listed by that link. Still not as many as thousands but more than a couple dozen played by Vitya alone (in less than a year). Try changing the Game Filter to display Chess with Different Armies and you can see them. It's at least enough to show that Vitya has a burgeoning interest in playing CDAs and not just inventing them. I do too.

As for the Half-Duck, it's a popular piece used already in some other variants, notably as the Lion in Paulowich's Lions and Unicorns. The objection doesn't speak to Betza's own description of why he uses it. I myself have plans for a lame half-duck in forthcoming CDA.

[The size of an audience is not a reliable measure of the excellence of a production.]

[btw, there is no shame in losing to Paulowich and losing to him probably speaks less to the supposedly overpowered character of the Half-Duck than to the strength of Paulowich who has beaten me several times too.]


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