Food for thought...
Bengals do play harder than DSH cats from my experience. Since your two get along most of the time, watch their interactions with each other. In our multi cat household we work on keeping each cat feeling secure and confident in each space. We've recently had to shift some catification around where it was creating some corning situations that reinforced the negative interaction between two of ours.
Our tortie isn't always feeling confident as she moves into adulthood (vet told us torties are known for their moodiness). Since she's observsble about the things that irritate her, her body language sets our bengal off to give her more attention than she'd like. Her subtle signs are scanning the room, not being fully relaxed in posture, or startling over noises. The more obvious signs are the locked eyes, tentative body language, or vocal cue. When this happens, our bengal can treat her like pray if we aren't consistent in our training. Everything we do now since the catification shuffle is to boost her confidence in areas that she hasn't felt confident or has triggered an attach. Play, treats and pettings are our positive reinforces. The more confident she grows the less our bengal notices her as someone to chase and play with because she's not sending the signals. As for our bengal, he has signs he's locking in on her so we've been working with him to divert attention and reward ignoring her.
Pay attention to where the events happen. What leads up to it becoming a fight. Watch both their body language for the bigger story.
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