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Chess has six different types of pieces: pawn, knight, bishop, rook, king, and queen, for a total of 16 pieces per side, or 32 total pieces. The US Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) has over 4700 soldiers and over 1300 vehicles, including 90 tanks, 90 infantry fighting vehicles, 112 armored personnel carriers, 18 self‐propelled howitzers, and 4 unmanned aerial vehicles.³⁶ This does not include other assets that would support the ABCT in combat, such as Army and Air Force attack aircraft, and Army logistics assets. When an ABCT is represented in a combat simulation, only the primary combatants are represented, which would be about 300 vehicles and 200 infantry, or 500 of the 6000 entities that would actually be on the battlefield. Assuming the ABCT’s adversary was similarly equipped and a similar size, the total entities that would be represented in the simulation would be around 1000, as compared to the 32 chess pieces.