Ralph Betza (born 1945) is a FIDE Master and inventor of chess variants such as Chess with different armies, Avalanche chess, and Way of the Knight.
Betza was a user of the website The Chess Variant Pages, on which several chess related works of his can be found.
These include the rules of his chess variants, his article on his funny notation, and articles about the value of fairy chess pieces.
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