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Chess with Different Armies. Betza's classic variant where white and black play with different sets of pieces. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2011 06:01 PM UTC:
Well, I think the remark that computers would play quite differently from humans should be interpreted in the context of the time it was made. Computers have made huge progress in their ability to play Chess since then, not in the least because of faster hardware. And Zillions, the only program at the time that was able to play such variants, is rather weak by today's standards.

Piece-value measurements with Fairy-Max on orthodox pieces reproduce the piece values extracted from human GM games quite well, despite the fact that Fairy-Max is rather weak, as Chess programs go.

Also note that I gave an alternative explanation for the slow demise of the Separate Realms army against FIDE as the one forwarded by Betza, in terms of the elephantiasis effect rather than ease of development.