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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 Sun, Apr 5, 2015 02:26 PM UTC:
> the maze of overcomplicated rules associated with checkmate from FIDE Chess that unnecessarily create a wide "draw gulf"

You lost me completely. What 'maze' are you talking about? AFAIK 'checkmate' in FIDE is that your King is up for grabs, and there is no move that alters that. I cannot see anything complicated in that, let alone 'over-complicated'. In fact I hardly could imagine anything simpler.