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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]
George Duke wrote on Tue, Dec 30, 2014 08:19 PM UTC:
"Classic" is the right word because Betza invented Chess Unequal Armies, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=614, as he points out in 1976 nearly forty years ago.  The most creative ever CV inventor Betza did not "begin" the dissatisfaction though.  OrthoChess having already 300 years of pretty fixed rules from 1500 on, CVs burgeoned right after the time of Philidor (d. 1795) and continue unabated.