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Walker wrote on Fri, Feb 5, 2021 03:45 PM UTC in reply to Ben Reiniger from Fri Jul 19 2013 06:07 PM:

I'm not sure about what actually happens, but the power of each piece runs into the same kind of problem as Ultima: All the moves are concentrated on moving down, and this favors the defense. I'm not sure, but we might call this array of pieces the Alphabet Army.